Bug#478781: dh-make-perl: suggest look for deps with dpkg -S too

[Kevin Ryde]

Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org> writes:
>
> If you want apt-file to work with your local repositories, make them 
> contain Contents files. For example reprepro(1) has Contents 
> configuration option for this purpose.

That sounds like hard work when dpkg has the info (and means you don't
have to keep installed debs around or download the big contents file).
:-)

Is there a tool to turn the currently installed package files into a
contents index which apt-file would recognise ... or whatever direct
access dh-make-perl is doing now?  Could it be as easy as catting
together the /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list files the way dlocate does?