Bug#823534: apt-get remove is unhelpful for virtual packages

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 1.0.1ubuntu2.13+7.0trisquel3

I tried to remove a package which is virtual, specifically nethack.
apt-get told me it could not do this, but said nothing about
what to do.

It would surely be easy to make it handle a virtual package by
seeing which real package provides it, and offering to delete
that one.

Alas. I can't reproduce this now, or show you the output,
because I no longer have those packages installed.

I am using Trisquel, not Debian, and reportbug does not seem to
work for me.

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