Bug#488463: apt-cache: regex compilation error

["Joe Nahmias" <joe@nahmias.net>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.7.12
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/apt-cache


Hi,

I got the following error when trying to search for all the debug
packages:

$ apt-cache search \*-dbg
E: Regex compilation error

--Joe

-- Package-specific info:

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

deb http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ unstable main contrib
deb-src http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ unstable main contrib

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

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring   2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                    2.7-12          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.3.1-3       GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6               4.3.1-3         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information