Bug#317101: apt: does not give meaningful error message if gpg is not found
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.28.6
Severity: normal
Hi,
when installing packages without having gpg present on the system, apt
complains that the packages being installed are untrusted. I
wrongfully attributed that to the fact that some _packages_ are still
unsigned, not being aware that apt's new feature only tests the
Release file's signature.
This would have been much easier if apt would thruthfully say that the
package were unverified since no gpg binary was found.
Please add a warning or re-word the "do you really want to install
untrusted packages" message to indicate that gpg might be missing.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-zgserver
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.0-11 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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