Package: apt-file Version: 2.1.5 Severity: normal Hi,
apt-file is not able to find files provided by the alternative system. I understand that those files are not exactly "a file in the package" but the package is reponsible for the file being there and therefore apt-file should find it. I stumbled upon that when searching for packages that provide /usr/bin/mail. Both apt-file and packages.debian.org only find the package 'mailutils' but IIRC there are at least 3 other packages which provide it via the alternatives system, bsd-mailx for example. I was unsure of the priority of this bug. On the one hand i'd say it's a wish, on the other hand i think this tool is pretty useless if it's just going to ignore things like alternatives and who knows what else might come altogether and just displays a minor subset of relevant packages. Thank you and best regards Hendrik -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (1010, 'stable'), (10, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-hnj-0.1 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt-file depends on: ii curl 7.18.2-8lenny4 Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.22+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libconfig-file-perl 1.42-1 Parses simple configuration files ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.22-1+b1 Addition list functions not found ii perl 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii wget 1.11.4-2+lenny2 retrieves files from the web Versions of packages apt-file recommends: ii menu 2.1.41 generates programs menu for all me Versions of packages apt-file suggests: ii openssh-client 1:5.1p1-5 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh ii sudo 1.6.9p17-3 Provide limited super user privile -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
