Dmitry Bogatov: > > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Dmitry Bogatov <kact...@gnu.org> > > * Package name : apt-seek > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Dmitry Bogatov <kact...@gnu.org> > * Url : > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/kaction-guest/apt-seek.git > * Licenses : GPL-3+ > Programming Lang : C > Section : admin > > apt-seek is a command line tool for searching files contained in > packages for the APT packaging system. You can search in which > package a file is included. > . > Unlike apt-file program, apt-seek uses constant database to > significantly speed-up search, at expense of regular expression > search possibility. > > I plan to maintain this package myself, keeping debianization in following > Git repository: > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/kaction-guest/apt-seek.git >
Hi, I would be happy to see this reduced search indices be part of apt-file eventually. It would hopefully enable other packages (like command-not-found and the Perl team's dh-make variant) to reuse apt-file (or its replacement) to search through optimised indices. A couple of remarks about the upstream code. Please consider using apt's fetch system to download Contents files. A couple of items where the download falls short: * Non-trivial supports like mirror:// or tor+http(s):// * It does not support alternative mirror layouts (e.g. Ubuntu and Debian disagrees on the location of Contents) * It does not support APT's proxying * It does not verify downloads (admittedly, a very minor issue) * It does not support the compression from APT (e.g. if a mirror want to provide the files uncompressed or .xz compressed) * It does not support PDiffs for updates * It does not automatically fetch Contents-all if the archive moved the "arch:all" files into Contents-all. I will actively push for this in buster (to reduce download sizes - notably of PDiffs) (see #649882) Thanks, ~Niels
