Hi, In the new version of apt-file (currently in experimental), we have changed/removed some features that will affect some packages. Packages listed below are BCC'ed to this mail.
Notably:
* /var/cache/apt-file will disappear
- command-not-found and dh-make-perl are known consumers
* Personal caches have been removed (-c)
- apt-venv creates files that uses that option
* "apt-file update" will become a thin call to "apt update"
- live-build uses this in a hook
* "apt-file search/show ..." will exit 1 when no matches are found.
- Presumably some will be bitten by this!
- I am open to having a switch in apt-file to make it exit 0 even
with no matches (but I believe that exit 1 should be the default).
* "apt-file show foo" now only lists the contents of "foo" rather than
any package containing "foo" as a part of its name.
- similar to dpkg -L foo
* The full list of known incompatibilities is in the changelog[1]
If you know of packages/pieces of the Debian infrastructure that are
affected by this, please let me know so I can file bugs against them.
Thanks,
~Niels
[1] https://tracker.debian.org/news/712486
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