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
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