Spaces make no difference in the old aptitude search form and the new search form leads to the same result:
on another mixed system I get apt-show-versions | grep -c /experimental 35 aptitude search '~S ~i ~Aexperimental' | wc -l 27 aptitude search '~S~i~Aexperimental' | wc -l 27 aptitude search "?narrow(?archive(experimental),?installed)" | wc -l 27 An example of a package not found by these aptitude search commands is (output from apt-show-versions) xserver-xorg-core/experimental *manually* upgradeable from 2:1.9.2.902-1 to 2:1.9.3.902-1 -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ii966e$u2l$1...@dough.gmane.org