Bug#75471: apt-cache.8 documentation is misleading.

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Package: apt
Severity: normal
Version: 0.3.19

The documentation would be better off mentioning that 
"apt-cache search" does a regular expression search, 
and not just a text search.

I suggest :


~/ref/apt-0.3.19 $ diff -u doc/apt-cache.8.yo{.orig,}
--- doc/apt-cache.8.yo.orig     Tue Oct 24 01:40:45 2000
+++ doc/apt-cache.8.yo  Tue Oct 24 01:41:58 2000
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
 
 dit(bf(search))
 bf(search) performs a full text search on all available package files for
-the pattern given. It searchs the package names and the descriptions for
+the regular expression pattern given. It searchs the package names and the descriptions for
 an occurance of the string and prints out the package name and the short
 description. If --full is given then output identical to bf(show) is produced
 for each matched package and if --names-only is given then the long



regards,
	junichi

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