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

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

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
[...]

-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
Acquire "";
Acquire::http "";
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://192.168.2.1:3128/";;

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- /etc/apt/sources.list --

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib

#deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

#deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian unstable main non-free
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.31
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-4    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.0.1-6  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.0.1-3    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information