[Aptitude-devel] Bug#400415: aptitude: Provide more information in error message about missing keys

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montezelo at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 22:15:07 UTC 2015


Control: reassign -1 apt
Control: forcemerge 399642 -1


Hi both,

2006-11-26 19:42 Daniel Leidert:
>Am Sonntag, den 26.11.2006, 02:47 +0200 schrieb Wouter Van Hemel:
>> Package: aptitude
>> Version: 0.4.4-1
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> When running aptitude, I have been receiving the following warning message lately:
>>
>> W: There are no public key available for the following key IDs:
>>    A70DAF536070D3A1
>>
>> When time permits, I think it would be a good idea to make this warning message a bit more verbose, such as whose key (if known) and/or
>> which repository causes the error. As it is now, it's rather difficult for users to find out more information, especially since the key
>> can not be found on one of the keyservers.
>
>I have a similar report open
>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399642. I guess, apt is
>the right package to report this bug. Or does aptitude has it's own
>library here too?

No, it uses apt for this, so merging the reports.  Thanks for letting us
know.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>



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