[PLUG] apt-file not working?

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

Anyone know why apt-file might be failing?  I see a number of "fails
silently" bugs in the debian bug tracking system, but none clearly
applies to me.  I can use dpkg -S, but this is strange.

    astra:/home/jeff# apt-file update
    astra:/home/jeff# apt-file search dvipdf
    astra:/home/jeff# dpkg -S bin/dvipdf
    tetex-bin: /usr/bin/dvipdfm
    tetex-bin: /usr/bin/dvipdft
    gs-common: /usr/bin/dvipdf
    astra:/home/jeff# ls -l /usr/bin/dvipdf
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 843 2005-08-17 13:33 /usr/bin/dvipdf
    astra:/home/jeff#

    jeff@astra:~ $ apt-file -v search dvipdf
    D: got 'deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib'
    D: kept 'deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib'
    D: got 'deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing testing/security-updates main contrib'
    D: kept 'deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing testing/security-updates main contrib'
    D: regexp: ^(.*?dvipdf[^\s]*)\s+(\S+)\s*$
    D: Search in \/var\/cache\/apt\/apt\-file\/secure\-testing\.debian\.net_debian\-secure\-testing_dists_testing_security\-updates_Contents\-i386\.gz

    jeff@astra:~ $

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 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://jeff.purple.com/>          +1 215/837-2287
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