Package: apt-file Version: 3.1.1 Severity: important apt-file does not respect apt pinning priorities and when a file is found it's hard to determine (from the output) what release it is from.
------------ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb [arch=amd64,i386] https://mirrors.ludost.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free deb [arch=amd64,i386] https://mirrors.ludost.net/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free deb [arch=amd64,i386] https://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch main non-free deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/ stretch- debug main contrib non-free ------------ ------------ $ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release n=jessie Pin-Priority: -1 Package: * Pin: release n=stretch Pin-Priority: 1000 ------------ ------------ $ sudo apt-file update $ apt-file search samba_util.h samba-dev: /usr/include/samba-4.0/samba_util.h ------------ In the above example apt-file is telling me that samba_util.h is included in samba-dev, but this was from the jessie distribution, and this file is not present in testing/stretch or unstable. Again, my apt preferences have jessie blocked from install and apt-file should not report a file being found in any package that cannot be installed -- without explicity allowing it in apt/preferences. At the very least apt-file could have a third column including the repository url that the package is from. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (1001, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt-file depends on: ii apt 1.3 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b6 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b1 ii libregexp-assemble-perl 0.36-1 pn perl:any <none> apt-file recommends no packages. apt-file suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
