Bug#460669: apt-cache search ocamlfind doesn't find ocaml-findlib

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Stefano Zacchiroli, le Mon 14 Jan 2008 15:43:21 +0100, a écrit :
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 01:04:33PM +0000, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > I was looking for ocamlfind, and apt-cache search ocamlfind wasn't
> > helpful.  The description of the package should probably have ocamlfind
> > somewhere in it for that search to succeed.
> 
> I've fixed this in the current development copy of the package, but I
> can't help observing that "apt-cache search" is *not* the right tool to
> search for packages on the basis of executable file names. You should
> look into apt-file, some of its front-end (e.g. packagesearch), or the
> only packages.debian.org search engine for that.

Yes, sure, but when ocamlfind is mostly the only binary in the package,
it's good that apt-cache search works :)

Samuel