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regarding Introduce a Commands field for command-not-found or similar utilities
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Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
For tools such as command-not-found, we need to know which commands
a package provides. We currently provide update-command-not-found
which downloads and processes Contents files due to ftpmaster
request, but I think that this solution is not good enough due
to the following things:
(a) Contents files require much space on the disk
(b) Parsing Contents files is not exactly fast
(c) Users have to manually update the data, or there needs to
be a cron job
(d) Due to (c), the package is unusable after direct installation
without first fetching Contents files
I propose that we add a new field called Commands (or whatever you
want) that provides a list of all commands a package provides in
the standard (root) path ({/usr,}/{s,}bin and /usr/games, although
the first ones are most important) with their basenames.
Example:
Package: apt
Commands: apt-get, apt-config, apt-mark, apt-cdrom, apt-cache, apt-key
We could then use that information directly and potentially add
command-not-found support to APT itself (once we break ABI), which
means one package less in the archive :)
The needed information can be found in bin_contents.file, but we
may want to allow packages to override the field themselves, as
bin_contents.file does not deal with alternatives and other
things done in maintainer scripts, maintainers of such packages
could then manually maintain the field with alternatives, or
the maintainer-supplied value could be merged with the value
extracted from projectb.
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Source: debhelper
Source-Version: 13.25
Done: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debhelper, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2025 06:51:00 +0000
Source: debhelper
Architecture: source
Version: 13.25
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debhelper Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
Closes: 638517 1016563 1079181 1107373
Changes:
debhelper (13.25) unstable; urgency=medium
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[ Niels Thykier ]
* debhelper-documentation.json: Correct command for `.ucf` files
* dh: Support `DH_OVERRIDDEN_COMMAND` variable for `override` targets
for cases where the original command is useful as a base.
* debhelper.pod: Update description on automated dependencies
* dh_gencontrol: Fix off-by-one compat guard affecting compat 14.
* In compat 14: Add `Commands` field to binaries to aid `command-not-found`
(Closes: #638517)
* dh_assistant: Explicitly use `JSON::PP::{true,false}`
* dh_assistant: Provide a compat upgrade checklist when upgrading from
compat 7 and on. This can be done via the command
`dh_assistant compat-upgrade-checklist`.
* No longer run `dh_dwz` by default in compat 14+ (Closes: 1016563)
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[ Andrea Pappacoda ]
* dh_installmodules: install .modprobe files in /usr/lib with compat 14+
(Closes: #1107373)
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[ Alexandre Detiste ]
* dh_assistant: Improve wording
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[ Noah Meyerhans ]
* dh_installsystemd: Always stop the service on remove (Closes: #1079181)
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