Re: Command /usr/bin/mv wrong message in German
Russell Stuart <russell-debian@stuart.id.au> writes:
> 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.
Guillem has a plan for addressing this, I believe as part of metadata
tracking, that would allow such files can be registered by their packages
and then tracked by dpkg.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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