Most people don't know what a browser is, <http://www.merriam- webster.com/dictionary/hostname> says "The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary", and people generally spend about one or two seconds on an error message. So it's not logical to assume that people know, or will be interested and successful in looking up, what a "hostname" is.
If this message was confined to apt, maybe it would be okay. But the screenshot shows it bubbling up to gnome-codec-install. Maybe patching apt would fix this bug, but it wouldn't fix any of the other problems with the same alert. So I think this bug is actually in aptdaemon, which is what gnome-codec-install uses to install software. ** Package changed: apt (Ubuntu) => aptdaemon (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/646834 Title: APT gives unclear error message: "something wicked happened" when hostname of archive cannot be found -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
