Bug#618017: "apt-cache search --names-only" also searchs for "Provides", man page should be updated

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

Control: tag -1 pending

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 02:16:39PM +0100, Camaleón wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.8.11.5
> Severity: normal
> 
> As per bug #98695¹, it seems that "apt-cache search --names-only" is also
> looking into "Provides" field while man page suggests that only package name is
> queried.
> 
> I think the manual page of apt-cache should be updated accordingly to reflect
> the current state of the paremeter.
> 
> ¹http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=98695

Thanks for your bug report, this will be fixed in the next experimental
upload.
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