whois contains mkpasswd but is not suggested when the command is typed and not installed

[Peter Maloney]

I don't really care which package it is in, but you should probably make the package suggestions include it.

# mkpasswd
or
# /usr/lib/command-not-found mkpasswd
No command 'mkpasswd' found, did you mean:
 Command 'kpasswd' from package 'heimdal-clients' (universe)
 Command 'kpasswd' from package 'krb5-user' (universe)
 Command 'kpasswd' from package 'openafs-kpasswd' (universe)
 Command 'tkpasswd' from package 'expect-dev' (main)
mkpasswd: command not found

Related to bug 284416 but I don't want to reopen that one. I am not suggesting splitting the package.

on openSUSE, the equivalent works fine:

# mkpasswd
If 'mkpasswd' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
    cnf mkpasswd
# cnf mkpasswd

The program 'mkpasswd' can be found in following packages:
  * whois [ path: /usr/bin/mkpasswd, repository: zypp (openSUSE:Stable_OSS) ]
  * whois [ path: /usr/bin/mkpasswd, repository: zypp (repo-oss) ]

Try installing with:
    zypper install whois

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for reporting this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

I presume that this needs to be fixed in command-not-found?

[Peter Maloney (peter-maloney)]

seems to work so I'll just close this

# mkpasswd
The program 'mkpasswd' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
apt install whois

# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial