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apt-file currently fails if source.list entries are configured with tor+http(s) apt transport.

W: Don't know how to handle tor+http
W: Don't know how to handle tor+https
E: No valid sources in /etc/apt/sources.list

Hi, the file

50apt-file.conf

is using both double and single hashes for comments but APT uses C-style commenting for its configuration files. So either // or the /* abcde */ style commenting should be used.

This can cause some tools to fail. For example when a "cupt why" command is given to the cupt package manager, it spits out

E: syntax error: line 1, character 1: expected: clear directive ('#clear') or option name (letters, numbers, slashes, points, dashes, double colons allowed)
E: unable to parse the config file '//etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50apt-file.conf'
W: skipped the configuration file '//etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50apt-file.conf'

All the file's comments should be converted to C-style as per "man 5 apt.conf".

Hello,

From what I can tell fromt he internets apt-file is not working for us because our repos do not have a Contents file.

I created this OBS issue to see about having it built in the pipeline.

Can you confirm that the reason apt-file would return not results (exits 1) is because the source is missing the Contents file? In other words if there was a valid Contents[.gz] apt-file would find the info no problem.

If so then this OBS issue is valid, if not it needs adjusted/closed and something else done.

Thanks!