[Bug 2064905] Re: Dubious output when using regex with apt-cache search

[David Kalnischkies]

Note the remark ", including virtual package names." in the manpage.

bindgen-0.65 has a "Provides: bindgen" (with a version), so it has
(also) the virtual package name "bindgen" and that perfectly matches
your regex. So, working as intended & documented and hence I am changing
the status to opinion (could be a question, but I don't seem to have the
rights to do that)

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Opinion

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Title:
  Dubious output when using regex with apt-cache search

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  In a noble VM, I wanted to search only for bindgen package, so I tried
  the following:

  $ apt-cache search ^bindgen$
  bindgen - Automatically generate Rust FFI bindings to C and C++ libraries
  bindgen-0.65 - Automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C and C++ libraries

  Why is bindgen-0.65 listed? $ should match with the EOL (man page does
  indeed refer to regex(7)).

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