Vitanuova for 2002 October 2 (entry 2)

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What leads to the error

Package foo has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package foo has no installation candidate

Is this necessarily indicative of a bug?

(I get this when I try to satisfy a dependency of a package which was itself not actually available in the release of Debian I'm using. Maybe that explains it; maybe changing sources.list would make the error go away.)


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