Bug#851136: dh-make-perl: docs of where available modules -> debs found

Kevin Ryde user42_kevin at yahoo.com.au
Thu Jan 19 00:24:30 UTC 2017


gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> writes:
>
> /var/lib/dpkg/available isn't updated for me either, unless I do some
> magic manually.

I did "dpkg --update-avail" and "dpkg --merge-avail" to bring in each
Packages file.

> That may or may not be the the case but dh-make-perl doesn't call the
> apt-file binary, it parses the Contents files (and caches them).

Ah, it must come the available file way etc instead.  The docs can
include what is demanded or what might work near enough ... :)


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