- Clarify description of 'search' on apt-cache(8) (Clos...

Author: mdz
Date: 2003-07-18 15:37:34 GMT
- Clarify description of 'search' on apt-cache(8) (Closes: #192216)

debian/changelog

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ apt (0.5.6) unstable; urgency=low
       the package is being purged (Closes: #182369)
     - Fix extra "/" character in apt.conf(5) (Closes: #185545)
     - Fix typo in tar error message (Closes: #191424)
+    - Clarify description of 'search' on apt-cache(8) (Closes: #192216)
 
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doc/apt-cache.8.sgml

@@ -206,13 +206,13 @@ Reverse Provides:
 
      <VarListEntry><Term>search <replaceable/regex [ regex ... ]/</Term>
      <ListItem><Para>
-     <literal/search/ performs a full text search on all available package 
-     files for the regex pattern given. It searches the package names and the 
-     descriptions for an occurrence of the string and prints out the package 
-     name and the short description. If <option/--full/ is given then output 
-     identical to <literal/show/ is produced for each matched package, and 
-     if <option/--names-only/ is given then the long description is not 
-     searched, only the package name is.
+     <literal/search/ performs a full text search on all available package
+     lists for the regex pattern given. It searches the package names and the
+     descriptions for an occurrence of the regular expression and prints out
+     the package name and the short description. If <option/--full/ is given
+     then output identical to <literal/show/ is produced for each matched
+     package, and if <option/--names-only/ is given then the long description
+     is not searched, only the package name is.
      <para>
      Seperate arguments can be used to specify multiple search patterns that 
      are and'ed together.