Bug#325786: apt: please allow for more verbose output when dependencies cannot be installed

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.6.40.1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

When apt is unable to install a package because something down the
dependency tree is unavailable, the message is not always very clear.
As an example, look at this buildd log:
<http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=workrave&ver=1.8.1-1&arch=m68k&stamp=1124833014&file=log&as=raw>

it would be nice if the "but it is not going to be installed" lines
would be expanded, so that buildd maintainers don't have to manually
dig in Packages files to find out what package or version, exactly, is
missing.

Thanks,

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