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dpkg -S inadequacies



    Hey people. Does anyone know if there are any plans to fix this?

[msoulier@tigger msoulier]$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/X11/mkfontdir
dpkg: /usr/bin/X11/mkfontdir not found.

    This is the one thing that rpm does better, IMHO. I could do an rpm -qf
and a file. It didn't matter if the path was absolute, relative, a symlink,
whatever. It found the package. dpkg -S seems easily confused. 

    Cheers,

    Mike

-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca> 
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a
good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be
dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925

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