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Bug#511292: apt: error message about missing keys doesn't mention the repository for the missing key



package apt
forcemerge 397702 511292
severity 397702 normal
thanks

Hello Tino, thanks for your report.

> aptitude update brought this error:
> 
> Fetched 10.1MB in 2s (4141kB/s) 
> Reading package lists... Done
> W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
> 58522DBD02AA9A04
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> 
> This is of little help, as the user only knows that there is a key missing.
> He doesn't know what key is missing. APT should print what repository is
> affected. Further, the last message ("You may want to run apt-get update")
> is totally misleading, as it doesn't help because the key is just not
> available.
Yes, this is a bug, and this is a copy of existent bug #397702.

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor

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