Re: not possible to install apt-transport-https package on jessie

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Le 30/12/2016 à 16:16, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 04:11:43PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > Le 30/12/2016 à 15:46, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> > > Is ca-certificates perhaps in contrib or non-free?
> >
> > No. AFAIK, packages in main cannot depend on packages in contrib or
> > non-free.
>
> Also, the final error message in the original email was for the package
> librtmp1 not for ca-certificates.  That was just a recommendation.

By default, apt-get treats "Recommends" as "Depends", unless 
--no-install-recommends is passed or APT::Install-Recommends is set to 
false.