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
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`apt-get install python3.4` on xenial exits 0 despite python3.4 not
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