Bug#854615: ITP: apt-seek -- search for files within Debian packages

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 08:32:55PM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> 
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org>
> 
> * Package name     : apt-seek

Please don't. We already have enough packages in the archive that
use the apt name and cause confusion because people think they are
APT tools and thus come to the APT maintainers asking for help.

Especially if you do not use apt tools or library and thus do not
integrate correctly. Like the file fetching, the sources.list handling
(does not handle deb822).

We spent a lot of work to make these things accessible, so please
don't just hack your way around it and upload that into the archive.

>  apt-seek is a command line tool for searching files contained in
>  packages for the APT packaging system. You can search in which
>  package a file is included.
>  .
>  Unlike apt-file program, apt-seek uses constant database to
>  significantly speed-up search, at expense of regular expression
>  search possibility.

Please, please, please, contribute to apt-file instead of duplicating
a tiny subset of it in a faster way.

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