package: dpkg Hello, thank you for reading this feature request.
Hopefully the title is self-explanatory, but I will try to make this clear: #The issue: User wants to know what files were installed by running 'apt install <package>' He can run 'dpkg -L <package>' but that only shows files installed by the metapackage itself, not its dependencies. He can also use 'apt-cache depends --recurse', but that produces huge files with too much info, not just the files added. #Backwards Compatibility?: Yes, fully, currently dpkg -L -R reads out an error, as the options are considered incompatible (-R is used for something else, but the option can be reused in this separate context). #Implementation: I am available to attempt implementing the fix if I can be formally assigned the issue with the expectation that in principle there's interest in applying the patch to mainstream. No general guidance is needed, my approach would be to start by reading the Debian New Maintainer's guide, the project specific readmes, building dpkg, hacking a recursive solution and integrating it with the main binary when the combination of both options is invoked. The deliverable would of course be in git-patch format. #Clarification: I know that these days there's a lot of LLM spam to OS projects, so I'd like to clarify of course that this message is not LLM written, and that a patch would not include LLM output. Thank you.
