Bug#246144: apt-cache should validate commandline args before parsing the package data

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

severity 246144 wishlist
tags 246144 wontfix
thanks

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 05:15:05PM +0300, Gintautas Miliauskas wrote:

> apt-cache should validate commandline arguments prior to parsing the
> package database:
> 
> [~]$ time apt-cache foo
> E: Invalid operation foo
> 
> real    0m2.283s
> user    0m2.084s
> sys     0m0.103s
> 
> (strace reveals that it indeed reads the database)
> 
> I know this is nitpicking, but it shouldn't be hard to fix.

As a matter of fact, it is not simple to fix, and this case doesn't seem
worth optimizing.

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 - mdz