Re: Bug#504299: aptitude: Warning message says "You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems"
reassign 504299 apt
severity 504299 wishlist
thanks
On 2008-11-02 17:00 +0100, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.4.11.10-1
> Severity: minor
>
> Hi!
>
> Sometimes when aptitude fails to update, it says:
>
> W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1 Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch) <ftpmaster@debian.org>
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
>
> Shouldn't it be "You may want to run aptitude update to correct these
> problems", please?
Maybe, but the warning messages come from libapt-pkg, not from aptitude.
And I doubt that libapt-pkg should take the trouble to find out which
program called it and format the message accordingly, so I'd suggest to
close the bug or tag it wontfix.
Sven
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