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Bug#983081: marked as done (apt-cache search -n should sort ouput alphabetically)

Your message dated Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:16:54 +0100
with message-id <20210219111006.GA54205@debian.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#983081: apt-cache search -n should sort ouput alphabetically
has caused the Debian Bug report #983081,
regarding apt-cache search -n should sort ouput alphabetically
to be marked as done.

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Package: apt
Version: 1.8.2.2
Severity: normal

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When doing... 

apt-cache search -n grub

...the content is output unsorted. One has to add '| sort' to get alphabetically sorted output. IMHO, apt-cache should always provide alphabetically-sorted output.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.8
  APT prefers stable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.118
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2019.1
ii  gpgv                    2.2.12-1+deb10u1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0           1.8.2.2
ii  libc6                   2.28-10
ii  libgcc1                 1:8.3.0-6
ii  libgnutls30             3.6.7-4+deb10u6
ii  libseccomp2             2.3.3-4
ii  libstdc++6              8.3.0-6

Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20200601~deb10u2

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc                      <none>
pn  aptitude | synaptic | wajig  <none>
ii  dpkg-dev                     1.19.7
ii  gnupg                        2.2.12-1+deb10u1
ii  powermgmt-base               1.34

- -- no debconf information

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On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 07:38:32AM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.8.2.2
> Severity: normal
> 
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> 

> When doing... 
> 
> apt-cache search -n grub
> 
> ...the content is output unsorted. One has to add '| sort' to get
> alphabetically sorted output. IMHO, apt-cache should always provide
> alphabetically-sorted output.

`apt search` sorts its output, which makes sense being targetted at
end-users. `apt-cache search`, being targetted at scripts, benefits from
producing output as it goes along so scripts work faster.

Also as you pointed out, the output is fixed, so if you do want to look
at it, despite not being a script yourself, you're free to just pipe it
to sort, no need for us to go to the trouble of doing that.
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