Bug#1100415: apt: Consider a more descriptive error message for `apt install ../non-existing.deb`

Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.apt.devel
Message-ID <b68cd2ff-0305-4876-b4f4-e27f3f75dc28__26258.159887378$1741882349$gmane$org@thykier.net>
Package: apt
Version: 2.9.31
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

Hi,

Please consider to add "No such file or directory" as output for when 
passing a non-existing .deb to `apt install`. It would make it a not 
clearer to the user what is going wrong.

$ apt install ../non-existing.deb
Error: Unsupported file ../non-existing.deb given on commandline
$ ls ../non-existing.deb
ls: cannot access '../non-existing.deb': No such file or directory

Best regards,
Niels
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