[Aptitude-devel] Bug#720750: aptitude: search returns different numbers of packages depending on sort order

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 3 February 2014 23:58, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
<manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-02-03 Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com>:
>> Duplicates are not desirable, even if it resolves the issue with
>> missing packages.  Anyway, lets just have it reverted and fixed on
>> wip-cmdline (weeks now, see below).
>
> It was a joke, that if one puts the terms twice, having duplicated
> output might be the intended behaviour.
>
> I agree that this the current solution is not good in the case of
> overlaps (or well, trades one bug for one undesired behaviour or bug,
> depending on the point of view).
>

Trading one bug for another obvious bug is unacceptable on master.
Likewise, with the initial version of "installsizechange" being
obviously broken in the context of the rest of the module.

You must be more thorough with your work.  These kinds of "quick fix"
are unsuitable for applying to the master branch.

> So I will fix this within a couple of days, no problem.
>
>

In the future, please submit your work as patches or prepare changes
on a separate branch for review.

Thanks