[Bug 2039097] Re: dotnet command suggested as coming from dotnet-host package

[Steve Langasek]

Note that the solution for this is to emit a 'Cnf-Visible-Pkgname' field
in the binary package's control file.  E.g.

Package: python3.11-minimal
Cnf-Visible-Pkgname: python3.11

You would then also need to ask the release team to regenerate the
command-not-found database for affected releases (which I believe can be
done post-release but is not habitually done).

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Title:
  dotnet command suggested as coming from dotnet-host package

Status in dotnet6 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in dotnet7 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in dotnet8 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  On a box where dotnet is not installed, command-not-found will suggest
  `dotnet` as part of dotnet-host(7.0, 8.0), which is a package deep
  into the dotnet dependency tree that, if installed individually, does
  not yield a useful .NET installation, e.g.

  ```
  $ dotnet
  Command 'dotnet' not found, but can be installed with:
  sudo snap install dotnet-sdk       # version 7.0.402, or
  sudo apt  install dotnet-host      # version 6.0.121-0ubuntu1
  sudo apt  install dotnet-host-7.0  # version 7.0.110-0ubuntu1
  sudo apt  install dotnet-host-8.0  # version 8.0.0~rc1-0ubuntu1
  See 'snap info dotnet-sdk' for additional versions.
  ```

  Even though that is the package that includes the `dotnet` binary, the
  recommendation should be overridden to either the dotnet* virtual
  packages, dotnet-sdk-*, or dotnet-runtime-*.

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