[Aptitude-devel] Bug#691874: closed by Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> (Re: Bug#691874: aptitude: "versions" treats barewords as ?name instead of ?exact-name)

[Samuel Bronson]

Control: reopen -1 , tags -1 + fixed-in-experimental

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System
<owner at bugs.debian.org> wrote:
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> which was filed against the aptitude package:
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> #691874: aptitude: "versions" treats barewords as ?name instead of ?exact-name
>
> It has been closed by Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com>.
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> From: Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com>
> To: 691874-done at bugs.debian.org
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> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 09:11:49 +0800
> Subject: Re: Bug#691874: aptitude: "versions" treats barewords as ?name instead of ?exact-name
> Version: 0.6.9-1
>
> On 31 October 2012 00:21, Samuel Bronson <naesten at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Package: aptitude
>> Version: 0.6.8.1-2
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> According to the documentation, the "versions" command treats each
>> argument as either a package name or a search pattern, depending on
>> whether or not it has any '~' or '?' characters.
>>
>> This could, for example, be implemented by treating plain arguments as
>> "?exact-name" patterns.
>>
>> However, it actually seems to treat them as "?name" patterns, so that
>> e.g. the wesnoth example produces this output:
>
> This is resolved with the version in experimental.

I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to close the bug outright until
the fix hits unstable ;-)