Bug#919700: "apt-file list" prints files for wrong package
Package: apt-file
Version: 3.2.1
I ran into this odd corner case:
$ apt-file list arc
arc: /usr/bin/arc
arc: /usr/bin/marc
arc: /usr/share/doc/arc/Arc521.doc.gz
arc: /usr/share/doc/arc/Arcinfo.gz
arc: /usr/share/doc/arc/Readme.gz
arc: /usr/share/doc/arc/changelog.Debian.gz
arc: /usr/share/doc/arc/changelog.gz
arc: /usr/share/doc/arc/copyright
arc: /usr/share/man/man1/arc.1.gz
arc: /usr/share/man/man1/marc.1.gz
arcanist: /usr/bin/arc
arcanist: /usr/share/man/man1/arc.1.gz
I guess apt-file got confused because "arc" is a substring of "arcanist"
and they both ship the same files (bug #919697).
-- System Information:
Architecture: i386
Versions of packages apt-file depends on:
ii perl 5.28.1-3
ii apt 1.8.0~alpha3
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34+b1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4
ii libregexp-assemble-perl 0.36-1
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Jakub Wilk
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