* apt-pkg/versionmatch.cc:

  - Support matching pins by regular expressions or glob() like patterns,
    regular expressions have to be put between to slashes; for example,
    /.*/.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/apt-pkg/versionmatch.h b/apt-pkg/versionmatch.h
index a8da072ae..39639a23d 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/versionmatch.h
+++ b/apt-pkg/versionmatch.h
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ class pkgVersionMatch
    enum MatchType {None = 0,Version,Release,Origin} Type;
    
    bool MatchVer(const char *A,string B,bool Prefix);
+   bool ExpressionMatches(const char *pattern, const char *string);
+   bool ExpressionMatches(const std::string& pattern, const char *string);
    bool FileMatch(pkgCache::PkgFileIterator File);
    pkgCache::VerIterator Find(pkgCache::PkgIterator Pkg);