Bug#131397: "Something wicked happened" is not a useful error message

[Peter Maydell <maydell@tao-group.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4

During an apt-get update the following message was emitted:
                                                     
Err http://www.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages                                                                                             
  Something wicked happened resolving 'www.uk.debian.org:http' (-3)

"Something wicked happened" is not at all useful as an
error message. Is this an apt internal error, a problem with 
the nameserver, or what? (In fact experimentation suggests it 
happens when the name server times out.)

I think this error message should be rephrased to be more comprehensible
and informative...

Peter Maydell