Bug#870319: ben: Please make generated simple query match the set of exact package names

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

On 01/08/2017 02:00, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I believe the provided patch is inaccurate because it doesn't handle the
> case of a given package name appearing at the very beginning or the very end
> of the dependency list.
> 
> The syntax that I have used for transition trackers in Ubuntu that works
> reliably is:
> 
>   /(^| )(list|of|packages)\s*([,(:]|$)/

So you don't use the .depends ~ "foo|bar" syntax, right?

> Note that ^ and $ do not work as part of a character class in the regexp
> implementation used by ben, the last time I checked.
> 
> Breaking this down, we have:
> 
>  - either the beginning of the dependency list or a space
>  - the package name
>  - optional whitespace
>  - either the end of the dependency list, or one of the characters [,(:]
> 
> The three possible terminating characters are for: a bare dependency
> followed by another ("libevent-0.2-5, [...]"); a versioned dependency
> ("libevent-0.2-5 (>= [...])"; and a multiarch dependency
> ("libevent-0.2-5:any").

Isn't there also "<" (for build profiles)?


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane