[Bug 48859] Re: misleading question text when using --download-only without public key

[ThorX89]

THis is not limited to unverified packages.

A couple of minutes ago, I did "apt-get --download-only" and my command
asked for quite a lot of packages, which I did NOT want istalled, just
downloaded.

This message made me very unsure about whether apt-get has a bug that
will cause the packages to be actually installed.

I hade to give it a test run on a single package just to be sure.

I'd say this message did bug me quite a lot. Programs should not be
saying they're about to do X when in fact they're about to do Y. It'd be
better if they didn't say anything at all.

I don't get why this is even considered as "not a bug." I believe
there's almost universal agreement that if programs say they are about
to do something, then they will indeed what they say they will. Exempt
from this is malware.

** Summary changed:

- misleading question text when using --download-only without public key
+ misleading text when using --download-only with apt-get

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Title:
  misleading text when using --download-only with apt-get

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I added a 3rd party repository to sources.list and tried to download
  gaim 2.0 from it.  I specified --download-only so that the packages
  would be downloaded but not installed.

  Before starting the download, apt-get asks:

      WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
        gaim-guifications gaim gaim-data
      Install these packages without verification [y/N]?

  I don't want them installed - I already specified --download-only, so
  I answer no to this "install these packages?" question, at which point
  apt-get aborts without even downloading the packages, with this
  message:

      E: Some packages could not be authenticated

  I would suggest that the wording of the question should be changed to
  "Download these packages without verification [y/N]?" in the case that
  -d or --download-only has been specified.

  Here's a complete log:

  
  $ sudo apt-get --download-only install gaim
  Reading package lists... Done

  Building dependency tree... Done

  The following extra packages will be installed:
    gaim-data gaim-guifications libsilc-1.0-2
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    libsilc-1.0-2
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    gaim gaim-data gaim-guifications
  3 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 5493kB/5896kB of archives.
  After unpacking 3073kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
  WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
    gaim-guifications gaim gaim-data
  Install these packages without verification [y/N]? n
  E: Some packages could not be authenticated
  $

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