On 1/4/24 10:18, gregor herrmann wrote:
% dpkg -S $(which mv > coreutils: /usr/bin/mv
On bookworm:
$ dpkg -S $(which mv)
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/mv
This is caused by the /bin -> /usr/bin shift.
The reason I'm replying is after one, probably two decades this still
annoys me:
$ dpkg -S /etc/profile
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/profile
It was put their by the Debian install, and I'm unlikely to change it.
Its fairly important security wise. It would be nice if "dpkg -S" told
me base-files.deb installed it. It would be nice if debsums told me if
it changed. There are lots of files like this, such as /etc/environment
and /etc/hosts. There are some directories like /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
which should only have files claimed by some .deb.
To put it another way, Debian's audit trail of files managed / used by
the distro has never been great. There was a modest proposal ages ago
(by aj I think) to improve this, but it was rejected. To me it looks
more important now than it was then, and it was pretty important then.
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