[Bug 955228] Re: search with numbers and letters using synaptic quick filter doesn't quite work

[Robert Roth]

Strange: xapian search return neon27.* for a search for neon, but it doesn't return any results when searching for neon27 neither in software-center, nor in synaptic.
The strange thing is that ac100 returns ac100.* packages.
Anyway, I am moving this bug from synaptic to xapian, as this affects both software-center and synaptic, and both of these use the xapian index to look for results matching the search criteria.

** Package changed: synaptic (Ubuntu) => xapian-core (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  search with numbers and letters using synaptic quick filter doesn't
  quite work

Status in “xapian-core” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The Quick Filter search in Synaptic Package Manager won't display
  packages matching a search for numbers for numbers and letters.

  Example: Quick filter search on "neon" matches
  libneon27
  libneon27-gnutls
  libneon27-dbg
  (etc)

  But Quick filter search on neon27 matches nothing.

  The problem with searching seems to happen when the string you're
  searching for doesn't match the beginning of a package name.

  Another example: search for gcj11 and libgcj11.

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