hi all,

sometimes it would be very useful if one would be able to find out which files
are contained in a specific fink package. if the package is installed, or if
you at least have the .deb file, you can just use dpkg to find out which files
belong to that package.

but if you don't have the .deb file, or if you have created a .deb file and
you want to know if it complete, there is no way of finding out.

what do you like the idea that every package maintainer provides for each
package a list of files which are supposed to be included in the package. this
would be a text file in addition to the .info file. it could be easily created
after the .deb file has been created and would be very useful - especially but
not only for debugging.

for the binary release, one could also produce a zipped text file containing
all files of the release. 

this would also help you, for example, if some header file is missing and you
would like to find out if it is contained in any fink package.

what do you think?

cheers,
  kilian

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