On Wednesday 15 September 2010, you wrote: > apt-file is not able to find files provided by the alternative > system. I understand that those files are not exactly "a file in > the package" but the package is reponsible for the file being > there and therefore apt-file should find it.
apt-get depends on the Contents files that it downloads from the mirrors. The information about alternatives is simply not present in the Contents files, so there is no way for apt-file to display it. And since the alternatives are set up by the postinst scripts, they cannot be easily extracted from the .deb files. Therefore I don't think this bug is going to be fixed any time soon. Cheers, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
