Bug#768069: apt command line package name interpretation

2014-11-04 Thread Jonathan David Amery
Julian Andres Klode writes: > The only time an issue can appear is if you have two or more packages > ending in + or - where one is a prefix of the other. As long as we > do not have such packages in the archive, there is no issue. > I had a quick look in my (not complete) mirror and didn't see a

Bug#768069: apt command line package name interpretation

2014-11-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Julian Andres Klode writes ("Re: Bug#768069: apt command line package name interpretation"): > Control: severity -1 wishlist ... > The only time an issue can appear is if you have two or more packages > ending in + or - where one is a prefix of the other. As long as we > do

Bug#768069: apt command line package name interpretation

2014-11-04 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Control: severity -1 wishlist On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 05:46:08PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.9.7.9+deb7u5 > > apt interprets package names containing `-', `+' and `+' specially, > even when they are supplied as simple command line arguments. These > characters are, of c

Bug#768069: apt command line package name interpretation

2014-11-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: apt Version: 0.9.7.9+deb7u5 apt interprets package names containing `-', `+' and `+' specially, even when they are supplied as simple command line arguments. These characters are, of course, literals in package names, which may occur anywhere other than at the start. This is a problem b