On Wed, 25 May 2016, Irrwahn wrote:

> Hello DNG,
>
> has anybody else experienced problems using the
> apt-file utility recently?

yes, it is a known bug.

it is documented in an issue on Amprolla on our gitlab.

Amprolla is undergoing a major maintainance and Nextime is busy
setting up a new bigger server for packages.devuan.org (thanks to the
donations!). After that, Amprolla should receive some fixes and among
them this one to make apt-file work.

https://git.devuan.org/devuan-infrastructure/amprolla/issues/11

ciao

p.s. in general is good to use issues on gitlab for reports and most
importantly to look if an issue exists already. this one comes out
from a search of 'apt-file'

p.p.s. YES I need to update financial report, doing this ASAP