Package: aptitude Version: 0.5.2.1-1 Severity: minor The man page says "why" can use patterns,
If one or more <pattern>s are present, then aptitude will begin its search at these patterns; that is, the first package in the chain it prints will be a package matching the pattern in question. The patterns are considered to be package names unless they contain a tilde character ("~") or a question mark ("?"), in which case they are treated as search patterns (see the section "Search Patterns" in the aptitude reference manual). but # aptitude search ~o~niml i imlib-base i A imlib1 # aptitude why ~o~niml E: No package named "~o~niml" exists. # aptitude purge ~o~niml The following packages will be REMOVED: imlib-base{p} imlib11{p} "why" even fails when the pattern only matches one package, and even only one tilde, and even: # aptitude search '?name(noffle)' i noffle # aptitude why '?name(noffle)' E: No package named "?name(noffle)" exists -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org