Bug#266698: apt: Warns about Recommended packages of which a second alternative is installed

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.26
Severity: minor

If a package has:

Recommends: concrete-package | virtual-package

and you have installed one of the packages providing virtual-package,
but not concrete-package, you'll get this when installing this package:

Recommended packages: 
 concrete-package virtual-package

which shouldn't be shown, just as it isn't shown if this happens with
depends.


Concrete example:
postfix installed (providing mail-transport-agent), exim4 not installed:

$ apt-get install uw-imapd
(...)
Recommended packages: 
 exim4 mail-transport-agent
(...)
$

--Jeroen

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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
jeroen@wolffelaar.nl
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