Comment 3 for bug 1598810

apt doesn't _install_ the package matching the pattern[0], because the only place it is mentioned is in the Breaks of a completely unrelated package; it isn't available to install. So the user has asked for something to be installed, and there is nothing matching their criteria available to install, and you're saying that apt shouldn't treat this as an error?

(Returning this to New, because I don't think you realised that the package that apt found wasn't installable.)

[0] The greedy pattern matching that apt employs by default _is_ terrible user experience, but that's not what I'm asking to be fixed here.