Am Sun, Mar 01, 2026 at 01:32:28AM +0800, schrieb Dan Jacobson: > All I know is the short form works fine > $ apt search ~g
This search works because '~g' is a valid regex (without any special
regex syntax like '?') and lo and behold, it works as documented:
```
$ apt-cache show python-yarl-doc python3-yarl wmpuzzle | grep -e '^Package:' -e
'~g'
Package: python-yarl-doc
>>> url = URL('https://www.python.org/~guido?arg=1#frag')
URL('https://www.python.org/~guido?arg=1#frag')
'/~guido'
Package: python3-yarl
>>> url = URL('https://www.python.org/~guido?arg=1#frag')
URL('https://www.python.org/~guido?arg=1#frag')
'/~guido'
Package: wmpuzzle
http://people.debian.org/~godisch/wmpuzzle/.
```
So your search successfully searched for the string '~g' and found
some packages where the description contains that string.
This is not at all the same as what the '~g' pattern would result
in IF it would be interpreted by search. Compare:
```
$ apt search ~g
python-yarl-doc/unstable,unstable,testing,testing 1.22.0-1 all
documentation for the yarl Python library
python3-yarl/unstable,testing 1.22.0-1+b1 amd64
yet another URL library for Python
wmpuzzle/unstable,testing 0.5.3-1 amd64
WindowMaker-Dock-App: 4x4 Puzzle
$ apt list ~g
$
```
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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