Bug#25069: apt: lack of error messages

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.1.3

I wanted to install libwww-perl.

root@box:~joey>apt-get -f install libwww-perl
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...ok
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.

This was quite confusing. It seemed to just ignore my request. libwww-perl
isn't installed at all.

I figured out the probkem when I went into dselect and selected libwww-perl:

libwww-perl depends on libmime-base64-perl
libmime-base64-perl does not appear to be available
libwww-perl recommends libmd5-perl
libmd5-perl does not appear to be available

I think apt should generate some sort of an error message here.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux kite 2.0.35 #1 Tue Jul 21 21:25:05 PDT 1998 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.0.7t-1       The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
ii  libc6           2.0.7t-1       The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files)
ii  libstdc++2.8    2.90.29-0.6    The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)

--- Begin /etc/apt/sources.list (modified conffile)
deb file:/var/mirror/debian unstable main non-free non-us contrib
deb file:/home/joey/debian local/
deb file:/home/joey/debian public/

--- End /etc/apt/sources.list


--  
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deity-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org