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Bug#192216: misleading description of search in apt-cache's manpage



Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: minor

While discussions with newbie user, I found a missleading sentence in
apt-cache(8):

   search search  performs  a  full  text  search on all available
       package files for the regex pattern given. 

This can be easily understood as "on all available files of the
package". Better say: 

search: search performs a full text search on all available "Packages"
files for the regex pattern given (but only package name and
description).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.21-rc1 #4 Son Mai 4 09:03:40 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.1-17    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-17 The GNU stdc++ library

-- no debconf information




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