Bug#464846: problem with apt and bash completition

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:28:36PM +0200, Michalis Georgiou <mechmg93@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> #apt-cache show policy foo
>
>  foo:
>  Installed: (none)
>  Candidate: (none)
>  Version table:

  Hm.  What if you run "apt-cache showpkg foo"?

  Also: you said you ran "apt-cache search pkgnames" to see foo.  Did
you mean "apt-cache pkgnames"?

  I'm wondering if foo (what is it, anyway?) could be hanging around as
a virtual package.  Note that in apt's view, this doesn't just mean that
it's a Virtual package in the dpkg sense; it could also be mentioned in
some other package's dependency fields.

  Daniel