I just got hit with exactly the same bug. Fresh install from the Karmic
9.10 amd64 LiveCD and up-to-date as of today. Various other packages
installed over the last few days. Just noticed that typing "myth" into
Quick Search shows only a few hits, but adding a "b" to the end of the
string doubles the number of hits! So clearly Quick Search has been
lying to me all this time. (I've been running Karmic since the RC on a
different machine.) Saw via searching that in earlier releases, running
update-apt-xapian-index claimed to fix various issues; doing that now
has it just claim the index is already up to date.
Furthermore, if I C-F and type "myth" there, the results -continue- to
lie to me until I go -back- to the Quick Search box and delete the
"mythb" sitting there. -Then- I get the full complement of things that
happen to mention "myth".
I also see chatter that Synaptic is due to be replaced after Karmic, but
c'mon, this is a very visible and misleading bug and just because it
-may- be fixed in something which is -not yet even released- seems a
poor reason to let it languish. If this is impossible to fix, maybe you
should just disable Quick Search entirely---misleading, partial results
are worse than no results at all, and having the box vanish will force
users to use the ordinary Find function, which apparently -does- work.
[I actually got here because I tried typing "gdm" into the Quick Search
box and found a -very- suspiciously small list of packages, so at random
I tried something else.]
** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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[ubuntu karmic] Synaptic's Quick Search is flawed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/466281
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