apt-get typo in suggested packages

Bug #1664292 reported by Nils Moschuering
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openmpi (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When invoking `sudo apt-get install libhdf5-openmpi-dev` I get the following text

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libaec-dev libhdf5-openmpi-10 libhwloc-dev libibverbs-dev libjpeg-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev libjpeg8-dev
  libnuma-dev libopenmpi-dev zlib1g-dev
Suggested packages:
  libhdf5-doc opennmpi-doc

where there is a typo in the last line.
What I expected to happen: openmpi-doc
What happened instead: opennmpi-doc

Additional information:
1. lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04
2. apt-cache policy apt:
apt:
  Installed: 1.2.19
  Candidate: 1.2.19
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.19 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.2.15ubuntu0.2 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages
     1.2.10ubuntu1 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

Tags: xenial yakkety
Revision history for this message
Joshua Bayfield (jbayfield) wrote :

I can confirm that this issue is present in Yakkety and that the package libopenmpi-dev is suggesting an incorrect package.

'apt-cache show libopenmpi-dev' shows:
Suggests: opennmpi-doc

affects: apt (Ubuntu) → openmpi (Ubuntu)
Changed in openmpi (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: xenial yakkety
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