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apt-file package

  1. Bug #181600
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 181600

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era (era) wrote :

This would be the expected output on this system:

vnix$ apt-file search /ext2 | uniq | fgrep /ext2 | head
comerr-dev: usr/share/doc/libcomerr2/examples/ext2_err.et.gz
cryptsetup: lib/cryptsetup/checks/ext2
doc-linux-html: usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Flash-Memory-HOWTO/ext2.html
doc-linux-html-pt: usr/share/doc/HOWTO/pt-html/mini/ext2fs-undeletions.pt_BR.html.gz
doc-linux-ja-text: usr/share/doc/HOWTO/ja-txt/kernel-docs-2.4/filesystems/ext2.txt.gz
doc-linux-ja-text: usr/share/doc/HOWTO/ja-txt/kernel-docs-2.6/filesystems/ext2.txt.gz
doc-linux-text-pt: usr/share/doc/HOWTO/pt-text/mini/ext2fs-undeletions.pt_BR.txt.gz
e2fslibs-dev: usr/include/ext2fs/bitops.h
e2fslibs-dev: usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_err.h
e2fslibs-dev: usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_ext_attr.h

I noticed this in the Changelog for version 2.0.3-2, back in 2003:

  * Remove leading slash in pattern (Closes: #190122)

and also for 2.0.5:

  * Remove tailling slash (Closes: #280690)

I seriously question the logic behind these changes. (These are Debian bug numbers, I believe.)

If I were to work on a different approach to these bugs, should I submit it directly to Debian, or could you consider it for Ubuntu? (I might also end up reverting the changes introduced in Launchpad bug #33483 and bug #33485 on the same principles; I'm somewhat skeptical of those patches.)