Package: dpkg Version: 1.9.20 Severity: important `dpkg -l regexp' does not correctly print all the packages in the Debian server which match the regexp.
For example: eminescu:~$ dpkg -l gnu\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ un gnu-standards <none> (no description available) ii gnugo 3.2-1 Plays the game of Go (Wei-Chi). ii gnumeric 1.0.6-1 A GNOME spreadsheet application un gnumeric-doc <none> (no description available) un gnumeric-gda <none> (no description available) un gnumeric-pytho <none> (no description available) un gnupg <none> (no description available) un gnupg-doc <none> (no description available) ii gnuplot 3.7.2-4 A command-line driven interactive plotting p un gnuserv <none> (no description available) un gnutls <none> (no description available) Another example: eminescu:~$ dpkg -l gnuc\* No packages found matching gnuc*. However, the gnuchess package, for example, exists! I use this method to find out if a package mathing a regexp exists or not. In previous versions of dpkg (the one of the stable version, 1.6.15), this bug does not appear. Eugen -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux eminescu 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
