Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: wishlist based on closure of my normal bug 121051, the preferences file does not handle package wildcards gracefully, but takes only explicit package names or the acrosss-the-board wildcard, *.
it would be extremely convenient for apt to handle relative wildcards, like package.prefix* or *package.string*, in the preferences file. if unchanged, apt preferences docs should state package wildcards are handled differently from version wildcards. currently, man apt_preferences says, "selection by version can be done by exact match or prefix match." -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux cranky 2.4.12-686 #2 Sat Oct 13 20:13:05 EST 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE= Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.4-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library
