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Bug#618776: searching for hold will match packages with that name



On Ma, 22 mar 11, 00:37:35, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:23:42PM +0000, Owen Dunn wrote:
> > Package: release-notes
> > 
> > Chapter 4 of the squeeze release notes asks one to search for holds
> > by typing:
> > 
> > dpkg --get-selections | grep hold
> > 
> > This will erroneously match any packages whose names contain the
> > string `hold'
> 
> dpkg --get-selections | grep 'hold$'
> 
> I guess this should fix it although it complicates things.
> 
> It is a question of addressing very corner case or keep it simple.

$ apt-cache search -n hold
holdingnuts-server - poker server
holdingnuts - poker client

(I have lenny, squeeze, wheezy and sid in sources.list)

but those two packages are not present in lenny. Maybe postpone this 
issue for wheezey?

Regards,
Andrei
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