On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 04:24:56PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Trent W. Buck <trentb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Kari Pahula <k...@debian.org> writes: >>> Though now I'm thinking that it's not generally a good idea to >>> expect an one to one mapping from cabal names to libghc6-*-dev >>> names anyway, but better to look at what files you are using and >>> what package they belong to. >> >> cabal-debian could do this using apt-file(1), I guess. > > Currently cabal-debian uses the debOfFile function in > Distribution.Package.Debian, which looks at > /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list to compute which package a file is in.
If that's the same as dpkg -S (or dlocate), then it's inferior to apt-file in that apt-file can tell you about packages that aren't installed. I'd also expect apt-file to be faster as the entire database is stored in a single file, rather than one per package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-haskell-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org