Re: apt debug

[fxkl47BF@protonmail.com]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2025, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 12:43:13 +0000, fxkl47BF@protonmail.com wrote:
>> apt list ~e^science
>>
>> how can i see the details of what is being searched and how
>
> man apt-patterns
>
>       ?source-package(REGEX), ~eREGEX
>           Selects versions where the source package name matches the specified
>           regular expression.
>
> man 7 regex
>
>       '^'  (matching the null string at the beginning of a line)
>


i've read that several times
i don't see anything that tells me the details of how apt is performing the search