Bugs in source package apt-file -- Debian Bug report logs

Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; Will Not Fix (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Patch Available (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (3 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Will Not Fix (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Unclassified (3 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (10 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Will Not Fix (1 bug)

#824973 [i|☹| ] [apt-file] apt-file update no longer works as a user
Reported by: Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 00:09:02 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: wontfix; Found in version apt-file/3.0; Filed 9 years and 243 days ago; Modified 9 years and 2 days ago;

#1119710 [n|+| ] [apt-file] apt-file does not support architecture variants
Reported by: Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:23:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in version apt-file/3.3; Filed 79 days ago; Modified 79 days ago;

#919700 [n| |♙] [apt-file] "apt-file list" prints files for wrong package
Reported by: Jakub Wilk <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 18:00:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version apt-file/3.2.1; Fix blocked by 703605: apt-file: Incomplete fix for #557719 (fails w. diverts); Filed 7 years and 1 day ago; Modified 7 years and 1 day ago;
#1020760 [n| | ] [apt-file] apt-file: not clear how to do EOL matching
Reported by: Curt Sampson <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 03:03:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version apt-file/3.2.2; Filed 3 years and 114 days ago; Modified 3 years and 114 days ago;
#1031776 [n| | ] [apt-file] apt-file: Bogus output when listing files with spaces?
Reported by: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 14:36:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version apt-file/3.3; Filed 2 years and 330 days ago; Modified 2 years and 330 days ago;

#596933 [n|☹| ] [apt-file] apt-file: files provided by alternatives cannot be found
Reported by: Hendrik Jaeger <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:27:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: wontfix; Found in version apt-file/2.1.5; Filed 15 years and 128 days ago; Modified 11 years and 212 days ago;

#663139 [m| | ] [apt-file] apt-file: no homepage URL given
Reported by: shirish शिरीष <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:21:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version apt-file/2.5.0; Filed 13 years and 318 days ago; Modified 13 years and 317 days ago;
#703605 [m| |♔] [apt-file] apt-file: Incomplete fix for #557719 (fails w. diverts)
Reported by: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:27:06 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version apt-file/2.5.1; Blocking fix for 919700: "apt-file list" prints files for wrong package; Filed 12 years and 305 days ago; Modified 7 years and 1 day ago;
#1122387 [m| | ] [apt-file] apt-file: Bash suggests filenames for the first argument
Reported by: Samuel Plavec <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:19:03 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version apt-file/3.3; Filed 38 days ago; Modified 36 days ago;

#408379 [w| | ] [apt-file] apt-file download to download a file from archive
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:18:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version apt-file/2.0.8.2; Filed 18 years and 362 days ago; Modified 15 years and 85 days ago;
#525813 [w| |=♙] [apt-file] [apt-file] Packageversion
Reported by: Matthias Erich Popp <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:36:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 578727; Found in versions apt-file/2.3.3, apt-file/2.5.2, apt-file/2.2.2; Fix blocked by 1065123: ftp.debian.org: please provide version information in the Contents files; Filed 16 years and 269 days ago; Modified 1 year and 323 days ago;
#695205 [w| | ] [apt-file] apt-file: Should provide a wrapper to install the found package
Reported by: Ole Tange <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 13:03:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 13 years and 46 days ago; Modified 13 years and 43 days ago;
#773385 [w| | ] [apt-file] apt-file: Support the package:architecture format on command-line
Reported by: Simon Johansson <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:00:20 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version apt-file/2.5.4; Filed 11 years and 34 days ago; Modified 2 years and 209 days ago;
#840168 [w| | ] [apt-file] apt-file does not respect apt pinning priorities
Reported by: "William L. DeRieux IV" <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 05:30:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version apt-file/3.1.1; Filed 9 years and 102 days ago; Modified 9 years and 75 days ago;
#851656 [w| | ] [apt-file] apt-file: list/show: accept multiple package names on the command-line
Reported by: Paul Wise <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 10:24:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 9 years and 2 days ago; Modified 9 years and 2 days ago;
#904678 [w| | ] [apt-file] dpkg-reconfigure apt-file ought to give me sources contents
Reported by: Ian Jackson <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:30:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version apt-file/3.1.4; Filed 7 years and 177 days ago; Modified 7 years and 24 days ago;
#968113 [w| | ] [apt-file] apt-file: -s --src --source shortcuts for -I dsc
Reported by: Paul Wise <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2020 02:03:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version apt-file/3.2.2; Filed 5 years and 163 days ago; Modified 5 years and 163 days ago;
#988105 [w| | ] [apt-file] apt-file: could --installed become an (interesting) option?
Reported by: Patrice Duroux <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 19:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version apt-file/3.2.2; Filed 4 years and 258 days ago; Modified 4 years and 258 days ago;
#1030935 [w| | ] [apt-file] apt-file: patch proposal for #988105 and change its output to add release and arch
Reported by: Patrice Duroux <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 14:15:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version apt-file/3.3; Filed 2 years and 343 days ago; Modified 2 years and 342 days ago;

#409279 [w|☹| ] [apt-file] should work from the start (try to run apt-file update in postinst)
Reported by: Eddy Petrișor <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Found in version apt-file/2.0.8.2; Filed 18 years and 355 days ago; Modified 10 years and 45 days ago;

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- 20 Outstanding
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- 1 Important bugs
- 5 Normal bugs
- 3 Minor bugs
- 11 Wishlist items
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- 1 Patch Available
- 16 Unclassified
- 3 Will Not Fix

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Debian Bug report logs: Bugs in source package apt-file

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