Bug#964956: apt-cache search trips over regex special characters in package names

Nevermind, I should have read the man page more carefully, which clearly states that it expects a regex as argument for the search sub-command. Please close, sorry for the noise. Daniel signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#964956: apt-cache search trips over regex special characters in package names

Package: apt Version: 1.8.2.1 Severity: important Hi, running `apt-cache search libstdc++5` on a fresh minimal system yields an empty result. This behaviour is inconsistent with processing of command-line arguments of the sub-commands pkgnames and show. Environment: - minimal buster -