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		pabs3 on Jan 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small productio... The dpkg roadmap mentions a metadata tracking proposal, which seems likely to provide something like the database that you want. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/RoadMap https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/MetadataTracking Personally I vastly prefer the flat file version, it is much easier to inspect and modify and maybe less likely to get corrupted.

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