Russell Stuart <russell-deb...@stuart.id.au> writes: > The reason I'm replying is after one, probably two decades this still > annoys me:
> $ dpkg -S /etc/profile > dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/profile > It was put their by the Debian install, and I'm unlikely to change it. > Its fairly important security wise. It would be nice if "dpkg -S" told > me base-files.deb installed it. It would be nice if debsums told me if > it changed. There are lots of files like this, such as /etc/environment > and /etc/hosts. There are some directories like /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ > which should only have files claimed by some .deb. Guillem has a plan for addressing this, I believe as part of metadata tracking, that would allow such files can be registered by their packages and then tracked by dpkg. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
