• Bug#1101913: `aptitude search '?all-versions(pre)'` matches on package

    From Lee Garrett@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 2 09:30:02 2025
    Package: aptitude
    Version: 0.8.13-7
    Severity: normal
    X-Debbugs-Cc: debian@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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