Comment 4 for bug 512878

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote : Re: [Bug 512878] Re: archive.getPublishedSources matches package_name as substring

On Tuesday 26 January 2010 17:41:25 Martin Pool wrote:
> 2010/1/26 Julian Edwards <email address hidden>:
> > exact_match defaults to False. I don't think this can realistically be
> > changed now without affecting all the users of this.
>
> Is inexact matching a general pattern in Launchpad APIs? It seems
> pretty weird.
>

I don't think it is. Unfortunately this API was exposed as a complete match
of what the internal method is, without really thinking about it :(