diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2fd0cc0..87daabb 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
   * Add a rudimentary which-pkg-broke-build. (It's a wrapper around
     which-pkg-broke which does the same but for build dependencies;
     closes: #795812)
+  * debmany:
+    + Fix error message upon non-existing package.
 
  -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Thu, 08 Sep 2016 09:20:01 +0200
 
diff --git a/debmany/debmany b/debmany/debmany
index dc985da..9bf2390 100755
--- a/debmany/debmany
+++ b/debmany/debmany
@@ -266,9 +266,9 @@
     if [ -z "$aptdata" ]
     then
       errormsg "There was an error looking for package '$package'."
-      aptdata=`apt-get -q2 --print-uris --reinstall install "apt-get"  2>/dev/null | grep "apt-get"_`
+      aptdata=`apt-get -q2 --print-uris --reinstall install "apt"  2>/dev/null | grep "apt"_`
       if [ $? -ne 0 ] ||  [ -z "$aptdata" ] ; then
-      # If looking for apt-get fails then there is something amiss
+      # If looking for apt fails then there is something amiss
         error "Apt-get might not be working properly Possible failure when running 'apt-get -q2 --print-uris --reinstall install \"$package\"'"
       else
         error "The package does not exist."