The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> writes: > $ apt-cache policy apt-file > apt-file: > Installed: 2.5.4 > Candidate: 2.5.4 > Version table: > *** 2.5.4 0 > 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages > 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> So my inference at this point is that in testing and stable, 'apt-get > update' (and presumably 'apt update') does not update the apt-file > index, but in experimental and possibly sid it does. > IOW, this is not only new since I noticed the above, but new since > _now_. Yes... that's what the words in the subject header of this thread mean? The word "upcoming" was important. :) The new version of apt-file (and therefore the new index handling) is, as stated in the first message in this thread, currently only in experimental. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>