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

Package:
apt
Source:
apt
Description:
commandline package manager
Submitter:
Niels Thykier
Date:
2025-03-13 16:12:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1100415#5
Date:
2025-03-13 16:08:28 UTC
From:
To:
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