Bug#178993: apt: "apt-cache search -something" doesn't work

[Michal Cihar <cihar@email.cz>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: minor


Searching for anything that begins with - fails, as it is treated like
parameter. From man page it seems that it should work (search  regex),
but it doesn't...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux quirk.cic 2.4.20-ck #1 Wed Jan 15 20:44:58 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.1-9     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library

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