I tested the git branch apt-acquire by building it using
git-buildpackage in Jessie. I had to downgrade the apt dependency to
get it installed, but after this I was able to do 'apt-file update' with
tor+http sources. But apt-file search did not work because apt-get did
not understand the --format option, which I guess is available only in
apt for experimental. I did not want to use an experiemtal version of
apt and stopped the testing there.
This is the patch I used to get the package to install:
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f882ba8..cb641b0 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Vcs-svn:
svn://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/deb-maint/apt-file/trunk
Package: apt-file
Architecture: all
Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
- apt (>= 1.1~exp10),
+ apt (>= 1.0.9~),
libapt-pkg-perl, liblist-moreutils-perl,
libregexp-assemble-perl
#Recommends: python, python-apt
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
