Bug#901444: apt: should warn when recommends can't be installed and/or optionally fail

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> schrieb am Mi., 13. Juni 2018, 14:18:

Package: apt
Version: 1.6.1
Severity: wishlist
Control: affects -1 autopkgtest
User: debian-ci@lists.debian.org
Usertags: issue

Dear APT maintainers,

With APT::Install-Recommends=true or --install-recommends, apt-get
silently continues when it fails to install recommended packages.

I have two requests (do you want two bugs?)
- It would be nice if apt-get would show a warning that recommended
  packages were not (all) installed.

It does show a list "Recommended packages" for recommends it did not satisfy.

- It would be nice if there was an option to let apt-get abort if
  recommended packages can't be installed when asked to do so.

Might be useful. You could hack it yourself by merging recommends lines into depends lines in status and lists files if you absolutely need that.

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Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.