[Bug 1860366] Re: Unable to install group of packages with `sudo apt install language-pack-*` (star or asterisk at the end of package names)

[Norbert]

This is not user-friendly at all.
And it breaks compatibility with previous Ubuntu releases (16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS from which users will upgrade to 20.04 LTS soon).

Here you are attacking user habits, this will not be pleasant for the end-users (and especially newbies).
You should discuss such actions in more public-mass form, other way this is a bit like GNOME'ish behavior with their silent feature removal :(

Also why are you sure that putting *experimental* package version to the LTS release is a good idea? Are you sure that it would be enough thoroughly tested before final FeatureFreeze?
I'll recommend to stay with version from *sid* by the way.

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Title:
  Unable to install group of packages with `sudo apt install language-
  pack-*` (star or asterisk at the end of package names)

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Have Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed
  2. Try to execute the installation of packages with similar names, i.e. 

       sudo apt install language-pack-*

  Expected result:
  * APT installs all packages started with `language-pack-`.

  Actual results:
  * APT does not install packages started with `language-pack-`, shows error instead:

  $ sudo apt install language-pack-*
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  E: Unable to locate package language-pack-*

  ---

  Note: the `sudo apt-get install language-pack-*` works as expected,
  will install 391 packages.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: apt 1.9.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-9.12-generic 5.4.3
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-9-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu15
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback:GNOME
  Date: Mon Jan 20 22:33:41 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-01-19 (1 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20200119)
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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