Quicksearch doesn't find partial package name

[Wouter Stomp]

Binary package hint: synaptic

When you type a partial package name, like abiwor, it doesn't find abiword. This becomes even more annoying if you look for package which turn out to have versions in the package names: e.g. libaio doesn't return libaio1.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thank you for taking the time to request this package and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately you have not provided enough information for a developer to start packaging this application. Please feel free to reopen or create a new report with more details about this problem.

Regards

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

Sorry, what information exactly are you missing? Why are you setting the status to incomplete?

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Dear Wouter, if you submit more details like ubuntu version, package version, and some steps to reproduce this problem would be great :)

Regards

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

Did you read the bug report? It states the exact (simple) way to reproduce it. It occurred on the intrepid development version at that time, I can't test it right now because of the troubles karmic has with my videocard.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Dear Wouter of course I did, for that reason I wrote if you could post some details like your ubuntu and package version (exactly), while I didn't have this basic information I can't test it ;)

Regards

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Wouter, I second Kamus. I'm unable to reproduce it in Intreprid, karmic or lucid. If it's still an issue, you could try to re-index the search database. Open a terminal and run:
$ sudo update-apt-xapian-index

Thanks.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Anyway quicksearch is broken, if it's not with abiw there are many exemples where it's not working. Marking as dup of bug 384454