Bug#212203: apt: Unhelpful diagnostic from apt-get
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: minor
# apt-get install stunnel
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package stunnel has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package stunnel has no installation candidate
I feel this message is unuseful: people who understand what's gone
wrong can solve the problem without it, and people who don't
understand aren't helped by it.
Particularly, the phrases "has no available version, but exists" and
"not available with the contents of sources.list" are both quite
opaque in their meaning.
Perhaps some form of words saying that the package cannot be found in
any of the places listed in /etc/apt/sources.list , and pointing at
the documentation concerning how to choose new things to put there,
would be more helpful?
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux daryl 2.4.20 #2 Thu May 15 21:35:30 BST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library
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