Synaptic "Quick search" doesn't support hyphens - Intrepid 8.10

[Tonohono]

Binary package hint: synaptic

The Synaptic Package Manager's (version 0.62.1ubuntu9) "Quick search" doesn't appear to support hyphens. As many package names contain hyphens, this issue is a bit troublesome.

For example:
User wants to remove package "totem-gstreamer"
Search results are refined as user types package name into "Quick search" box
If only "totem" is entered, all packages with "totem" in the package name and/or description are shown.
However, once a hyphen is added, "totem-" the search results vanish.
Typing the hyphenated package name in its entirety, "totem-gstreamer" produces no results.

Perhaps the "Quick search" is only searching package descriptions, for none of the descriptions which show up under the "Quick search" result of "totem" have an hyphens (totem-).

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

I am confirming this on Intrepid beta.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 282995, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Tonohono (tonohono-deactivatedaccount)]

On the contrary, 282995 (and 284188) is a duplicate of this one, considering it was submitted several days earlier.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

That's irrelevant. I'd already found and triaged the other bug report first.