On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 11:53:48AM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 09:16:39PM +0200, Darshaka Pathirana wrote: > > * [1] The list of packages differ (3 vs 59 packages) > > This happens because "x-window-manager" as a string appears only in > those three package descriptions. The old search finds them because > these packages have a "Provides: x-window-manager" which the new one > isn't taking into consideration. I think that can be argued both ways > and then it might still not be the intended result for this request > given that with such a 'search' a user is likely looking for packages > with that provides line only (which is somewhat approximated by -n in > old search, but that can again be argued both ways). So that request > might be better served by 'show' – if it would list providers instead of > being useless at the moment with virtual packages.
That'd get nasty, let's not have more magic in there. We should end up with apt search/show ?provides(x-window-manager) instead. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
