[Aptitude-devel] search for word "package" returns high number of results

[Daniel Burrows]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:52:24PM +0100, Cyril Chaboisseau <cyril.chaboisseau at free.fr> was heard to say:
> after a more in-depth search, it appears that 51 packages are returned by
> "aptitude ~dpackage" while they don't have any reference with this word
> when doing an "aptitude show <package_name>"
> 
> (compressed list in attachment)
> 
> here is some that you can check:

  (emphasis mine in all cases, tests performed using
  "aptitude show -v PACKAGE | grep --color package")

> dhcp3-client

  "This is a dummy *package* to aid in transitioning from the v3 DHCP ..."
   "Extra documentation can be found in the *package* dhcp3-common"

> dhcp3-common

  "This is a dummy *package* to aid in transitioning from the v3 DHCP ..."
   "common files used by all the dhcp3* *package*s"
   "This *package* contains the files used by all the *package*s ..."

> dhcp3-dev

   "ISC DHCP development files (transitional *package*)"
   "This *package* contains development files for ..."
   "This is a dummy *package* to aid in transitioning from the
    v3 DHCP *package*s ..."
   "new-style DHCP *package*s."
   "This dummy *package* may be safely removed after upgrading to squeeze"

> dhcp3-server

  "This is a dummy *package* to aid in transitioning from the v3 DHCP ..."

> empathy

  "This *package* contains the empathy IM application and account manager."

> empathy-dbg

  "This *package* contains debug symbols ..."

> exim4-base

  "support files for all Exim MTA (v4) *package*s"
  "needed by all exim4 daemon *package*s ..."
  and many more

> exim4-config

  "for the exim4 daemon *package*s..."
  "the main *package* to allow sites to replace the configuration scheme..."

   ...etc, skipping the rest of the exims

> icedtea-gcjwebplugin

  "Java plugin based on IcedTea and gcjwebplugin (transitional *package*)."
  "This is a transitional *package*..."

> k3b-data

  "This *package* contains the required data files common to all
   architectures."



  Daniel