apt doesn't _install_ the package matching the pattern[0], because the only place it is mentioned is in the Breaks of a completely unrelated package; it isn't available to install. So the user has asked for something to be installed, and there is nothing matching their criteria available to install, and you're saying that apt shouldn't treat this as an error?
(Returning this to New, because I don't think you realised that the package that apt found wasn't installable.) [0] The greedy pattern matching that apt employs by default _is_ terrible user experience, but that's not what I'm asking to be fixed here. ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: Opinion => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1598810 Title: `apt-get install python3.4` on xenial exits 0 despite python3.4 not being available To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1598810/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs