Bug#911728: apt: man page discourages installing .deb files

[Jean-Ralph Aviles]

Package: apt
Version: 1.4.8
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The wording on the apt-get(8) man page discourages installing of .deb
files by stating that a package can not be a filename and by providing
an example using a .deb file.

install is followed by one or more packages desired for installation or
upgrading. Each package is a package name, not a fully qualified
filename (for instance, in a Debian system, apt-utils would be the
argument provided, not apt-utils_1.4.8_amd64.deb).

Apt supports installing .deb files directly and it should be called out
on the man page.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii adduser 3.115
ii debian-archive-keyring 2017.5
ii gpgv 2.1.18-8~deb9u2
ii gpgv1 1.4.21-4+deb9u1
ii init-system-helpers 1.48
ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.4.8
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3
ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18+deb9u1

Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii gnupg 2.1.18-8~deb9u2
ii gnupg1 1.4.21-4+deb9u1

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none>
pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.25
ii powermgmt-base 1.31+nmu1
ii python-apt 1.4.0~beta3

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