[Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#765014: Bug#765014: dctrl-tools: 'grep-dctrl -S' doesn't work the way documentation describes

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 04:44:33PM -0700, Dima Kogan wrote:
> Hi. The docs say that -S is
> 
>  Shorthand for -FSource:Package
> 
> And they say that
> 
>   A field specification can contain a colon (:). In such a case, the
>   part up to the colon is taken as the name of the field to be searched
>   in, and the part after the colon is taken as the name of the field
>   whose content is to be used if the field to search in is empty.
> 
> I interpret this to mean that -S results in a search in the Source, and
> if this search comes up empty, a search happens in Package.

No, Package is searched only if Source is empty (which includes the case when
Source is missing).

> However, the following snippet produces no result
> 
>  grep-dctrl -S -X make <<EOF
>  Package: make
>  Source: make-dfsg
>  Version: 3.81-8.2
>  Installed-Size: 1145
>  EOF

I believe this is correct behavior.  Source is not empty.

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Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho