> dpkg -S path/to/file In the case of config files, this only seems to work sometimes -- maybe if it wasn't modified by the user? Or if it came from a pack

> dpkg -S path/to/file In the case of config files, this only seems to work sometimes -- maybe if it wasn't modified by the user? Or if it came from a package directly, and wasn't generated from its {pre,post}inst scripts? $ dpkg -S /etc/hosts dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/hosts $ dpkg -S /etc/resolv.conf dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/resolv.conf $ dpkg -S /etc/bash_completion bash-completion: /etc/bash_completion