Bug#155500: apt-ftparchive: please consider allowing globbing in FileList files

[Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>]

Package: apt-utils
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I am maintaining an internal, aptable archive that has virus scanner
data files. These files are automatically generated on a nightly
basis, and put in a directory in out local package pool on the
distribution server.

Because of the package pool, we need to use the FileList directive to
create the Packages.gz files for our internal distribution. Thus, we
are currently forced to have a script generate the FileList file for
the virus scanner data files.

Please consider adding globbing functionality to apt-ftparchive,
allowing FileLists like:

|[75/565]haber@lurene:~/debian$ cat database/dists/tpl/kav_non-free_binary-i386.list
|tplpool/non-free/kav/kav_3.0.136-1tpl6_i386.deb
|tplpool/non-free/kav-data/kav-data_3.0.*_all.deb

apt-ftparchive currently chokes on that file.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux paola 2.4.18 #1 Mon Jul 22 10:15:44 UTC 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE

Versions of packages apt-utils depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2- 0.5.4       Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                        2.2.5-10    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb2                       2:2.7.7.0-7 The Berkeley database routines (ru
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-10 The GNU stdc++ library