[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1101913: `aptitude search '?all-versions(pre)'` matches on package names instead of package version numbers

[Lee Garrett]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-7
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian at rocketjump.eu

Hi,

when searching for "?all-versions(pre)", it will return me all packages which
contain the string "pre" in the package name, e.g. aeson-pretty in version
0.8.10-1+b1. "?any-version" seems to exhibit the same behaviour. Would be nice
for it to correctly search the version string instead. Thanks!

Greets,
Lee

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.13
Compiler: g++ 14.2.0
Compiled against:
  apt version 7.0.0
  NCurses version 6.5
  libsigc++ version: 2.12.1
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.5.20250216
  cwidget version: 0.5.18
  Apt version: 7.0.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007f38076ba000)
	libapt-pkg.so.7.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.7.0 (0x00007f3806e00000)
	libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f38071c6000)
	libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007f3807190000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f3807691000)
	libcwidget.so.4 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.4 (0x00007f3807088000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f3806c80000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.83.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.83.0 (0x00007f3807676000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f3806a00000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f3806600000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f3806910000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f38068e3000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f380640a000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f3806c60000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f38068d0000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f380689f000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f3806878000)
	libzstd.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f3806340000)
	libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007f38062fb000)
	libsystemd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007f38061e6000)
	libcrypto.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.3 (0x00007f3805c00000)
	libxxhash.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxxhash.so.0 (0x00007f38061d3000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f38076bc000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f380707c000)
	libcap.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2 (0x00007f380686c000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.19-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.8.13-7
ii  libapt-pkg7.0             2.9.34
ii  libboost-iostreams1.83.0  1.83.0-4.2
ii  libc6                     2.41-6
ii  libcwidget4               0.5.18-6+b2
ii  libgcc-s1                 14.2.0-19
ii  libncursesw6              6.5+20250216-2
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.12.1-3
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.46.1-2
ii  libstdc++6                14.2.0-19
ii  libtinfo6                 6.5+20250216-2
ii  libxapian30               1.4.25-2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libdpkg-perl    1.22.18
ii  sensible-utils  0.0.24

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index                <none>
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.8.13-7
pn  debtags                         <none>
ii  tasksel                         3.79

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