Am Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 10:37:47AM +0100, schrieb didier gaumet: > package libtext-brew-perl is stated half-configured by apt search but not by […] > didier@hp-notebook14:~$ apt search '~c' > libtext-brew-perl/stable 0.02-3 all > perl implementation of Brew edit distance
So, as Julian already mentioned, this matches the string '~c' in the description, specifically the URL given at the end. I want to add through that `~c` is not matching `half-configured` even in commands that support patterns. As half-configured is an intermediate status that a package only ends up with in error cases there exists no apt pattern for this state. `~c` is matching packages that are not installed (= were previously `removed`), but have residual configuration files left (= they were not `purged`). It is the shorthand for `?config-files`. dpkg lists them with status `rc`, hence the naming. Best regards David Kalnischkies
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