I agree it is not a bug as such but it is a usability bug. Could apt- file do apt-file update as part of it's install process? Or could it give out a warning along the lines of "No content files found, have you ran apt-file update?"
At the moment results for not having the content files is exactly the same as not file not existing, which understandably can be misleading if the person does not know or remember whether the content files have been fetched. -- apt-file broken on dapper https://launchpad.net/bugs/5061 -- universe-bugs mailing list universe-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs
