question about apt

[Preston Landers <planders@mail.utexas.edu>]

Hi there,

I don't know if I'm mailing the right person or not, but here goes...

I am wondering if there is already a facility to search the lists in
/var/state/apt/lists and return meaningful results (ie, which packages 
have that string contained in their name, desc, etc.)

If there is, wonderful.  I haven't found it yet, but I'm far from an apt-guru.

If there's not, that's okay too because I just wrote a Python script
to accomplish that very thing.  Would you be interested in seeing it?
Do you think that would be useful to the debian world at large?

thanks,

Preston