Re: dpkg -S and symlinks
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:54:14AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Noting that the look command lacks the word herbicide, I will be a
> good Samaritan and inform somebody, or so i thought:
> I do
> $ man look
> "If file is not specified, the file /usr/share/dict/words is used..."
> $ dpkg -S /usr/share/dict/words
> dpkg: /usr/share/dict/words not found.
> Oh, I see it is a symlink. Odd, the dpkg man page doesn't mention -S
> doesn't know about symlinks. Must be a bug, no?
This is my frastration with current debian system.
"dpkg -S" only shows files in package but files created by install
scripts are not shown because it is not in package. "symlinks are
created by postinstall scripts for sure.
This is not a bug in narrow sense but usability bug. Thus you can file
ths as wishlist, I think...
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