[Aptitude-devel] Bug#801440: aptitude is unable to search a package which has a plus or minus symbol in it.

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.3-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Searching a package which has a plus or minus symbol gives nothing.

For e.g. :-

$ aptitude search libstdc++6
$

This tells it doesn't know what to do with packages which have + or -
in their name.


-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.7.3 compiled at Oct  7 2015 23:33:19
Compiler: g++ 5.2.1 20151003
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.16.0
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.6.1
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20150810
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.16.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffcb5586000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.16 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.16
(0x00007fcb86b02000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fcb868d2000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fcb866a7000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0
(0x00007fcb864a1000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3
(0x00007fcb861a2000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0
(0x00007fcb85ed4000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0
(0x00007fcb85cbb000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fcb858b9000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fcb8569b000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fcb85320000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fcb8501b000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fcb84e04000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fcb84a61000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fcb8485e000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fcb84659000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fcb8443e000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fcb8422e000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fcb8400a000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fcb83e02000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fcb83bfc000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000557883f89000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.7.3-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.16            1.0.10.2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.58.0  1.58.0+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libc6                     2.21-0experimental1
ii  libcwidget3v5             0.5.17-4
ii  libgcc1                   1:5.2.1-21
ii  libncursesw5              6.0+20150810-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.6.1-2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.11.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                5.2.1-21
ii  libtinfo5                 6.0+20150810-1
ii  libxapian22v5             1.2.21-1.2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.7.3-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-8
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index  0.47
ii  debtags           2.0.1
ii  tasksel           3.33

-- no debconf information


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