Bug#325299: apt: --names-only doesn't just search names

["Adam D. Barratt" <debian-bts@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 09:42 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.40.1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The man page says:
> 
>   and if --names-only is given then the long description is not searched,
>   only the package name is.
> 
> But:
> 
> griffon:~$ apt-cache search --names-only ming
> apache-common - support files for all Apache webservers

You're hitting an undocumented feature of `apt-cache search'.  It's
definitely a feature, as there are comments in the source code
indicating that it's supposed to happen. :-)

Specifically, search doesn't just examine package names, but also
virtual package names. apache-common Provides: libapache-mod-roaming,
which matches the supplied pattern. Try `apt-cache search --names-only
mail-tran', for instance.

Regards,

Adam