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search for files in packages



Hi,

 I spend a long part of my night to find the package with the
file named gnome-config. I looked everywhere and especially
in the http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages page, but
only in the "Search Package Directories" since the next
section "Search the Contents of the Latest Release" was
irrelevant for me (I supposed so). 

 Now a friend showed me how to do and I have the answer I was
looking for. But I'm sure I'm not the only one who looks for
a special file, try to find in which package it is, and just
look in the Search Package section. So what would you think
to add a third choice for the "Search on" in this section ?
We would have 

Search on: ( ) Package names only ( ) Descriptions (x) Files

 The Graal would be to have just one interface. With all the default
choice it would be as simple to use as rpmfind, a engine which
searches in all the descriptions of the packages, files included.
For advanced users it should keep the options as it is now.

 Last, maybe the form should be in the top of the page.

				Thanks for your work,

						Olivier.



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