Boruch Baum wrote: > Please respond to me directly, as well as on list. > > Today, I performed an `apt-get -t testing upgrade', which suggested a > package `tc-utils'. > > However, no package tc-utils seems to exist in the debian repositories. > > Normally, I would file a bug against the package 'suggest'ing tc-utils, > but I've already performed the upgrade, and don't know how, at this > point, to find the 'suggest'ing package. I don't see a relevant search > parameter in aptitude search. How would I do this?
The dpkg status file will contain the package header information including Suggests and Recommends. Look through it and see what package suggests it. less +/tc-utils /var/lib/dpkg/status Since it is on your system I expect your system to include it there somewhere. I looked through the file on my system and didn't turn up anything interesting. The grep-status tool is also very useful. # apt-get install dctrl-tools And then you can do something like this: $ grep-status tc-utils | less That will show you the entire package entry for any package that matches the pattern. The pattern in the above is tc-tuils. Or more fancy is to have it search only the Suggests field (-FSuggests) and have it print only the Package line (-sPackage) and print only the field value and not the field name (-n) and then the below would find the answer directly. $ grep-status -FSuggests -sPackage -n tc-utils Running this command on a local mirror told me the package was libpam-mount. $ zcat debian/dists/wheezy/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | grep-dctrl -FSuggests -sPackage -n tc-utils libpam-mount $ apt-cache show libpam-mount | grep Suggests Suggests: ncpfs, cifs-utils, openssl, fuse, davfs2, lsof, psmisc, xfsprogs, sshfs, tc-utils Note that Suggests are fairly weak. Not like Recommends which are very strong. Bob
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