On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 06:16:31PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> tag 375506 - patch
> thanks
>
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 05:41:54PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:07:11PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
> > >On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 05:43:48PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> > >> We could do something similar for --search (see patch following),
> > >> although note that while this means that '-S /usr/bin/[' now works,
> > >> '-S [' will not.
> > >
> > >Just a variation of your patch with strstr instead of strcmp, '-S [' works.
> >
> > It also changes the behaviour a little. Consider
> > 'dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man1/\[', which now matches the man page.
> >
> > Probably not a huge issue given the number of paths which actually do
> > contain metacharacters, but the intent was simply to make
> > 'dpkg -S /full/path' work reliably (i.e. where did that file come from?).
>
> Just for the record, I would opose both patches on the ground of very
> confusing and undefined behaviour.
Also, if this is not intended to work, it's okay to close this..
