Bug#964956: apt-cache search trips over regex special characters in package names

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Subject: Bug#964956: apt-cache search trips over regex special characters in package names
From: Daniel Reichelt <debian@nachtgeist.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 13:40:24 +0200
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Reply-to: Daniel Reichelt <debian@nachtgeist.net>, 964956@bugs.debian.org, 964956@bugs.debian.org
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Nevermind, I should have read the man page more carefully, which clearly
states that it expects a regex as argument for the search sub-command.

Please close, sorry for the noise.

Daniel

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