bug#47066: (At least) ‘guix search’ displays superseded packages twice

[zimoun]

Hi Tobias,

On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 11:42, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU 
Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> wrote:

> ~ λ guix search ^newsboat
> name: newsboat
> version: 2.22.1

[...]

> name: newsboat
> version: 2.13

It is not the “same” package.  So it appears to me expected they appear
twice.  I mean, one is:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define-public newsboat
  (package
    (name "newsboat")
    (version "2.22.1")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and the other

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define-public newsboat-2.13
  (package
    (inherit newsboat)
    (version "2.13")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

therefore I do not see where the bug is.  Could you explain more?


Thanks,
simon