Please remove all recommends that we do not supply in archives

[John Vivirito]

I know this is a lot of work and i am willing to help as soon as i can, But we recommend packages that are not in archives in a lot of packages (not sure how many or what ones they are. here is a brief example of packages that are recommended that we do not provide:

Recommended packages:
xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-nsc

this is not the only ones i have seen but these are the ones i have easy access to.

it would also be great to rename recommended packages that are used, here is an example:

Package firmware-linux is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package firmware-linux has no installation candidate

not sure what package this belongs to at this time but i feel we should use the correct package name to lessen confusion to users that try to install them.

The main purpose of this bug is to keep users from going outside our archives to find packages and to lessen confusion upon installing packages.

the system info im on atm but is not limited to Lucid:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
Linux Development 2.6.32-7-generic #10-Ubuntu SMP Sun Dec 6 13:43:20 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

If there is a way to list what packages recommend the above please let me know depends/rdepends does not help and cant use show.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

its been a bit longer than 6 months without a comment so Im closing it