Bug#874772: exim4: Use of /var/lib/apt/lists internals

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2017-09-10 Julian Andres Klode <jak at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 11:58:46AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
[...]
>> Wouldn't

>> grep-aptavail --show-field=Package --field=Provides mail-transport-agent
>> --no-field-names

>> be a nicer solution than the construct that you committed? or is
>> grep-aptavail also deprecated?

> Yes, that would work (as long as you don't pass file names to it),
> it's equivalent to apt-helper cat-file <all packages files> | grep-dctrl.
[...]

Fixed in GIT, thanks.
cu Andreas
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