On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> If firmware is needed (kernel reports this to udev)

The Linux kernel no longer reports this:

https://bugs.debian.org/725714

> A natural step would be to provide the apt-file data fragment
> needed to figure out which package to download for an
> APT repository, and ask if this should be done.  See
> <URL: https://bugs.debian.org/655507 > for details and a draft.

I would say that adding components/DEP-11 support to apt metadata is a
much better way to achieve this than copying parts out of the Contents
file. It is pretty close to equivalent anyway and is cross-distro so
it can be used by things like PackageKit.

https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11

-- 
bye,
pabs

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