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Package: dlocate
Version: 0.5-0.3
Severity: wishlist
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If dlocate wants to be a drop-in replacement for dpkg, shouldn't this
simple thing also work the same?
vnix$ dpkg -l libsigc++-2.0-0c2a
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii libsigc++-2.0- 2.0.17-2build1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ -
runtime
vnix$ dlocate -l libsigc++-2.0-0c2a
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-==============================================
In case it's not obvious, it prints the header but no actual result. (I
thought there was already a bug about that, but I can't find it. Just
submitted a new one.)
In order to make it actually display the package, I have to do regex
quoting:
vnix$ dlocate -l 'libsigc\+\+-2\.0-0c2a'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-==============================================
ii libsigc++-2.0- 2.0.17-2build1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ -
runtime
See also bug #441183
I know the original author's opinion about the usefulness of the regex
"feature" so I put the severity at "wishlist". Maybe it would be time
for someone else to take over this package anyway.
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see /usr/share/doc/dlocate/README.Debian
this is documented behaviour.
dlocate -l takes a regexp argument. of course that means that sometimes
you have to escape regexp special characters.
craig
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