Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8.2-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainers,
I noticed that specifying different sorting orders with "aptitude search" does
lead to differing numbers of results being reported. For example
$ aptitude search ~i^lib | wc -l
1027
$ aptitude -O name search ~i^lib | wc -l
1027
$ aptitude -O installsize search ~i^lib | wc -l
610
$ aptitude -O version search ~i^lib | wc -l
676
$ aptitude -O priority search ~i^lib | wc -l
5
I find this behavior very surprising. If it is intended, I believe it should be
documented more clearly - I was not able to find any explanation of it.
Thank you,
Christoph
-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.8.2 compiled at Nov 7 2012 07:08:03
Compiler: g++ 4.7.2
Compiled against:
apt version 4.12.0
NCurses version 5.9
libsigc++ version: 2.2.10
Ept support enabled.
Gtk+ support disabled.
Qt support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20130608
cwidget version: 0.5.16
Apt version: 4.12.0
aptitude linkage:
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffe8755000)
libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
(0x00007fd2c6c4b000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5
(0x00007fd2c6a1b000)
libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5
(0x00007fd2c67f1000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0
(0x00007fd2c65ec000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fd2c62ec000)
libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12
(0x00007fd2c604b000)
libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fd2c5c68000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fd2c5a50000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0
(0x00007fd2c579e000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0
(0x00007fd2c5586000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
(0x00007fd2c536a000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
(0x00007fd2c5061000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fd2c4d63000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
(0x00007fd2c4b4d000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fd2c47a0000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fd2c459d000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fd2c4399000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0
(0x00007fd2c4188000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fd2c4182000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fd2c3f79000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fd2c75f1000)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii aptitude-common 0.6.8.2-1
ii libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.9.4
ii libboost-iostreams1.49.0 1.49.0-4
ii libc6 2.17-92
ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3.4
ii libept1.4.12 1.0.9
ii libgcc1 1:4.8.1-2
ii libncursesw5 5.9+20130608-1
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.10-0.2
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.17-1
ii libstdc++6 4.8.1-2
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20130608-1
ii libxapian22 1.2.15-2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn apt-xapian-index <none>
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.6.8.2-1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.9
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn debtags <none>
ii tasksel 3.16
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