Bug#166033: apt: Pinning by regexp / pattern would be useful

[Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist

Pinning on a package name regular expression (or shell-like pattern)
would be useful.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux desktop 2.4.19 #1 mar oct 1 15:26:28 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=fr_LU@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_LU@euro

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-14.3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2        1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library