files contained by a package that is not installed

[Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>]

Hello!

I would like to know what files a specific package contains.  For an
installed package this is easily achieved by

  dpkg -L <package>

But for a package that is not installed I have to go to

  http://packages.debian.org

and "Search the contents of packages" for "all files in this package".

The problem is that sometimes there is no web browser or net connection
available and I just prefer working from the command line. apt-file
almost fulfills my needs, but it does only the reverse thing, look up
in which package a file is to be found.

Do you know of any way to get the complete list of files contained in a
package?
Thanks

Diego

P.S.: Please CC me, I cannot cope with the volume of debian-user at the
moment, sorry.