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software-center package

Searching for "python-" returns no results

Bug #852039 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
software-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
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Bug Description

Ubuntu Software Center 4.1.23.2, Ubuntu 11.10 beta 1
Ubuntu Software Center 5.1.14.1, Ubuntu Precise Beta 2

1. From the home screen, search for "python-".

What happens: No results.
What should happen: Hundreds of results.

See original description
Tags: db
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Robert Roth (evfool)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Kiwinote (kiwinote)
tags: added: db
Revision history for this message
Gary Lasker (gary-lasker) wrote :

I verified that this is still an issue in Ubuntu Software Center 5.1.14.1, Ubuntu Precise Beta 2.

description: updated
Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

This is releated to:
http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/128

The problem is that the "-" has a special meaning in the xapian query parser.

Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

We may get aways with:
- search_term = search_term.replace('-', '_')
+ search_term = search_term.replace('-', '\-')
in softwarecenter/db/database.py but we will also need to update db/update.py as this is doing the same (which is inconsistent with what a-x-i is doing which is why we have this bug).

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