Bug#870319: ben: Please make generated simple query match the set of exact package names
On 01/08/2017 17:55, 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?
>
> Does ben magically handle that as something other than a substring match?
> If so I haven't noticed this in practice.
It is supposed to handle that as exact matches. But it doesn't. This is
the whole point of this bug report.
Cheers,
--
Stéphane
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