Bug#750863: UDD: please include package contents information

Maytham Alsudany <[email protected]> Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:40:05 +0800

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.quality-assurance
Message-ID	<620d34fad569dcd520c8eb35bc7a99a72c1ad6d7.camel__19209.5976135292$1770007409$gmane$org@debian.org>

Including package contents information in the UDD would be very helpful:
- PostgreSQL db queries are faster and more flexible than apt-file
- Can search across all supported architectures
- Can be used for websites/services like packages.d.o without manually
downloading and parsing Contents files

Instead of the owner, group, mode columns suggested in the original bug
report, just having the filename would be enough (as that's all there is
in the archive's Contents files). Something like:
- package
- section
- distribution
- release
- component
- filename

Thanks,
Maytham

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