Bug#953531: apt and jokers

[David BERCOT <debian@bercot.org>]

Le 10/03/2020 à 11:05, Julian Andres Klode a écrit :
> Control: retitle -1 glob wildcards not accepted anymore
> 
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 08:42:20AM +0100, David BERCOT wrote:
>> Package: apt
>> Version: 2.0.0
>>
>> Apt does not work any more with jokers.
>> Before, I used apt in some cases with jokers.
>> Example : apt install remmina-plugin-*
>>
>> Now, I have an error message :
>> # apt install remmina-plugin-*
>> Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
>> Construction de l'arbre des dépendances
>> Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
>> E: Impossible de trouver le paquet remmina-plugin-*
> 
> This is intentional and was announced in debian/NEWS as well
> as the recent email announcements. You can use patterns, e.g.
> apt install ~n^remmina-plugin-

Ah, OK. Sorry, I have not seen this. Do you have a link to this
announcement ?

> Do you feel that this is a bad decision?

If there is another solution, no ;-)

Thank you very much.

David.