Package: command-not-found
Version: 0.2.26-1
Severity: wishlist

command-not-found is a lot faster than apt-file. Would it be possible
to add command-not-found to /usr/bin so that it could be used as an
alternative to apt-file? I often want to find out what package has a
certain binary. 

$ time /usr/share/command-not-found/command-not-found xml_pp
The program 'xml_pp' is currently not installed.  To run 'xml_pp' please ask 
your administrator to install the package 'xml-twig-tools
'

real    0m0.080s
user    0m0.028s
sys     0m0.052s

$ time apt-file search xml_pp
xml-twig-tools: /usr/bin/xml_pp
xml-twig-tools: /usr/share/man/man1/xml_pp.1p.gz

real    0m1.468s
user    0m1.272s
sys     0m0.184s




-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages command-not-found depends on:
ii  apt-file                      2.3.0      search for files within Debian pac
ii  lsb-release                   3.2-23     Linux Standard Base version report
ii  python                        2.5.4-2    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central                0.6.11     register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-gdbm                   2.5.2-1.1  GNU dbm database support for Pytho

command-not-found recommends no packages.

command-not-found suggests no packages.

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