synaptic quick search behaviour (different one)

[Karl Lattimer]

When using quick search for a partial name synaptic is built of fail. For instance, searching for "curl" does not return python-pycurl in the results. As the python package is "curl" the most intuitive thing for a user to do if they are missing the library is to search with synaptic for curl, it probably wouldn't occur to anyone to search for pycurl (which returns the result)

[emarkay (mrk)]

"Fixed" For Lucid and above, Ubuntu Forum post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9004526

Suggest re-evaluating and merging this and the other similar bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/synaptic/+bug/412526
https://bugs.launchpad.net/synaptic/+bug/269361
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/280395
https://bugs.launchpad.net/synaptic/+bug/299076

[AJenbo (ajenbo)]

Will this fix also fix "nautilus-image-converte" not returning "nautilus-image-converter"?

[AJenbo (ajenbo)]

I see this has been fixed in 10.04

[AJenbo (ajenbo)]

Sorry it is only partially solved "nautilus-image-converte" now returns "nautilus-image-converter", but "curl" dosn't return "pycurl"