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[Giles Westwood <1004080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

On precise.

AptContents.pm

    return map
        { $host . "_" . join( "_", $dir || (), "dists", $dist, $_ ) }
        @components;

returns gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main

When processing a line from the sources.list e.g.

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main

but apt-file actually creates a Contents file without main

gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_Contents-amd64.gz

This causes the apt-file dependency management to fail.

So either apt-file or AptContents are wrong, they don't share a single
library for parsing the sources.list file. apt-file uses:-

sub parse_sources_list($) {

##########################

A config only workaround to anyone who has this problem is to create a
~/.apt-file.conf

with

destination = <host>_<path>_dists_<dist>_main_Contents-<arch>.gz

or just to rename the files to include the components.

** Affects: dh-make-perl (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Debian::AptContents doesn't correctly source apt-file contents files

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