Bug#47440: this is done by apt-file

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Subject: Bug#47440: this is done by apt-file
From: "Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:06:29 -0400 (EDT)
Message-id: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.44.0308131954380.31191-100000@boater.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-to: "Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>, 47440@bugs.debian.org

tags 47440 + fixed
thanks

> Now and then you want to install any package that contains a certain
> file. Obviously, what you need to do is grep through the relevant
> Contents-* files. Which you need to update first. And somehow keep track
> of all of them.

This operation is now done by the "apt-file" package.  (APT developers: 
feel free to close this bug now :-)

regards,

-- 
Kevin McCarty                Physics Department
kmccarty@princeton.edu       Princeton University
www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty  Princeton, NJ 08544

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