Bug#509974: Auto-lowercase package names?

2014-02-08 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2014-02-08 Justin B Rye : > > If I ask for "Amanda" I now get a straightforward failure with no > mention of the package descriptions matching that string... but I was > never a big fan of that feature in the first place. Seems to do a search more intelligently but with package names, and only wh

Bug#509974: Auto-lowercase package names?

2014-02-08 Thread Justin B Rye
Package: aptitude Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > In recent versions (0.6.8.4-1), the behaviour doesn't match what is > explained in the messages of this bug report, so it looks to me that > it's already doing what you requested (lowercase and searching for > package name), even if the bug

Bug#509974: Auto-lowercase package names?

2010-03-10 Thread Justin B Rye
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1+b2 Followup-For: Bug #509974 Trent W. Buck wrote: > As package names are always lowercase, perhaps aptitude should > lowercase requested package names? AOL. Aptitude's behaviour with strings that it doesn't immediately recognise as package names is

Bug#509974: Auto-lowercase package names?

2008-12-27 Thread Trent W. Buck
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 Severity: wishlist In a moment of confusion, I ran this: $ sudo aptitude install RCS [...] Couldn't find any package matching "RCS". However, the following packages contain "RCS" in their description: As package names are always lowe