Bug#207811: apt-utils: apt-ftparchive and apt-file disagree on Contents file syntax

["Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>]

Package: apt-utils
Version: 0.5.9

I found after a bit of trial and error with my private apt repository,
that although the output of "apt-ftparchive contents" looks like this:

path/to/file/1				package1
path/to/file/2				package2

the syntax expected by "apt-file list <package>" is instead this:

path/to/file/1				section1/package1
path/to/file/2				section2/package2

and in fact "apt-file list" ignores any line in a Contents-* file with no
"/" in the package field on the right.  (Oddly, "apt-file search" doesn't
have this problem.)

Since the Contents-* files at ftp.debian.org use the second syntax above,
I assume this bug is with apt-ftparchive rather than apt-file.  Please 
reassign it to apt-file if you disagree with me.

regards,

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