apt-file will not update: bad link to the file list on security.debian.org

[Jonathan Wilson <jw@mailsw.com>]

I am used to using apt-file to look at some information about packages before 
I install them - specifically the list of what file they provide 
( "apt-file list" ). apt-file has to be updated with apt-file update just like 
apt-get does.

For the last few days I've been trying to update apt-file and I'm getting the 
following error:

--16:47:53--  
http://security.debian.org//dists/stable/updates/Contents-i386.gz
           => 
`/var/cache/apt/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_Contents-i386.gz'
Resolving security.debian.org... 194.109.137.218, 128.101.240.212
Connecting to security.debian.org[194.109.137.218]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
16:47:54 ERROR 404: Not Found.


using a browser I cannot find Contents-i386.gz anywhere under 
http://security.debian.org//dists/stable/updates/

Does anyone know what the correct URL is? apt-file is able to download 
http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz just fine.

If someone knows how to use apt-cache or some other tool to show the list of 
files in a package, I would appreciate hearing about it. I did not see a way 
to do that in the man page.

Thanks,

	JW

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