Bug#41024: apt-get install g++- can't find package g+

[Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@IMSL.shinshu-u.ac.jp>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.11

Overriding installation of packages with names ending in `+' does not
work.  Similarly, I expect that overriding removal of packages with a
name ending in `-' (if any) will not work either.

lingo:~# apt-get --simulate install g++-
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package g+
lingo:~#

It looks like this is internally converted to a `remove g++' which is
in turn converted to `install g+'.  Just guessing here, though.  Note
that `apt-get --simulate remove g++' works as expected.

I am using potato with kernel version 2.0.36.
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Olaf Meeuwissen                              Shinshu University, Japan