Re: apt aptitude inconsistent search results (regex)

["Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.bell@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Ano Nymous <qubital@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've read man 7 regex and I'm fairly sure those regexes are fine but many
> instances give wrong results.
> An application that gives expected results is grep, in particular grep -E.
> Is this a known issue, or where am I going wrong?

The closest bug I could find in aptitude having to do with regex was this one:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403631

This is a wishlist bug and has nothing to do with what you've found.
I'd guess no bug has been submitted for this issue so you might
consider opening one.

-- 
Chris