Bug#176407: www.debian.org: package contents search should accept regexps
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 01:59:40PM +0100, Miernik wrote:
> Currently there is now way to find out which package contains for
> example the af command. When I search for af as subword, I get 300 pages
> of results:
> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386&word=af
>
> Searching for af$ would have solved the problem.
bin/af isn't perfect, but it only produces a single page of
candidates.
> Searching for full regexps in package names search would be nice too.
> I've recetly wished to le able to search for libpng.*-dev
Searching all distributions for "libpng" only produces 7 false
positives (of 14 results).
Matt
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