On 01/08/2017 17:55, Steve Langasek wrote: >>> I believe the provided patch is inaccurate because it doesn't handle the >>> case of a given package name appearing at the very beginning or the very end >>> of the dependency list. > >>> The syntax that I have used for transition trackers in Ubuntu that works >>> reliably is: > >>> /(^| )(list|of|packages)\s*([,(:]|$)/ > >> So you don't use the .depends ~ "foo|bar" syntax, right? > > Does ben magically handle that as something other than a substring match? > If so I haven't noticed this in practice.
It is supposed to handle that as exact matches. But it doesn't. This is the whole point of this bug report. Cheers, -- Stéphane
