[Aptitude-devel] Bug#509974: aptitude: Auto-lowercase package names?

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

Hi,

In recent versions (0.6.8.4-1), the behaviour doesn't match what is
explained in the messages of this bug report, so it looks to me that
it's already doing what you requested (lowercase and searching for
package name), even if the bug reports were not closed.

Can you please confirm if this is already doing what you expect?


# aptitude install Rcs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  rcs
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 62 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/200 kB of archives. After unpacking 513 kB will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package rcs.
(Reading database ... 170918 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../archives/rcs_5.9.2-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking rcs (5.9.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.6-1) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (5.2.0.dfsg.1-2) ...
Setting up rcs (5.9.2-1) ...


# aptitude purge rcs
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  rcs{p}
...


# aptitude install RCS
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  rcs
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 62 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/200 kB of archives. After unpacking 513 kB will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package rcs.
(Reading database ... 170918 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../archives/rcs_5.9.2-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking rcs (5.9.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.6-1) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (5.2.0.dfsg.1-2) ...
Setting up rcs (5.9.2-1) ...


# aptitude install amanda
No candidate version found for amanda
No candidate version found for amanda
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 62 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.


# aptitude install Amanda
No candidate version found for amanda
No candidate version found for amanda
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 62 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.


# aptitude install AMANDA
No candidate version found for amanda
No candidate version found for amanda
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 62 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.


(removing description)
# aptitude search amanda
p   amanda-client
p   amanda-client:i386
p   amanda-common
p   amanda-common:i386
p   amanda-server
p   amanda-server:i386


# aptitude install Apache2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apache2 apache2-bin{a} apache2-data{a} libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3{a}
libaprutil1-ldap{a}
0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 62 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,362 kB of archives. After unpacking 4,897 kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.


-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>