Issue a real error message if no contents database is available for the suite
in question.
This isn't exposed on the Debian site since we actually have _some_ contents
for every suite (experimental has contents for debian-ports.org). But on
the Ubuntu site we have no information at all for *-backports and *-updates.
(cherry picked from commit
3eda9fe5cb2a6fe0fc67493c2147d8a3ff2d904d)