xbattle is no longer in the repositories, still gets suggested

[Alistair Buxton]

al@al-desktop:~$ xbattle
The program 'xbattle' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install xbattle
al@al-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install xbattle
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package xbattle
al@al-desktop:~$

This package no longer exists in the Ubuntu repositories.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: command-not-found 0.3ubuntu8
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-031100-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 28 22:32:48 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-27 (93 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130827)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: command-not-found
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

I can confirm that command-not-found still suggests to install xbattle, even though the package was removed from the repository a while back. I have submitted a patch which removes xbattle from the suggestion list.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Quoting https://code.launchpad.net/~hjd/ubuntu/trusty/command-not-found/removed-xbattle/+merge/197298/comments/460014

"""
I'm not sure this is the right thing to do. If you look at the pre-build.sh, it explicitly says that it doesn't want the scan.data in bzr.

% wc -l UnifiedDataExtractor/scan.data
0 UnifiedDataExtractor/scan.data

pre-build.sh runs update-from-web.sh which tries to download the latest scan.data from an internal Canonical server, under mvo's account. I do not have access to this internal server, but my suspicion is that since Michael left Canonical, this file is not getting updated. If it were, I wouldn't expect scan.data to even include xbattle in the first place.

I'm going to subscribe/ping mvo and follow up on the bug. Maybe it's better to include the scan.data in bzr after all? (It's only ~1MB.)
"""

Michael, what do you think we should do about this?

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

I am not sure what happened behind the curtains on this, but on Ubuntu 14.04 I see the following behaviour:

$ xbattle
xbattle: command not found

So this issue has been resolved.