osc se Foo::Bar shortcut for osc se --package perl-Foo-Bar

NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+  - support added for osc search 'perl(Foo::Bar)' 
+
 0.130
   - New "service" command to run source services locally or trigger a re-run on the server.
   - setlinkrev is setting now the revision to xsrcmd5 by default to avoid later breakage on indirect links by default.

osc/commandline.py

@@ -4939,7 +4939,7 @@ Please submit there instead, or use --nodevelproject to force direct submission.
             osc search \'search term\' <options>
             osc sm \'source package name\'      ('osc search --maintained')
             osc bse ...                         ('osc search --binary')
-            osc se ...
+            osc se 'perl(Foo::Bar)'             ('osc --package perl-Foo-Bar')
         ${cmd_option_list}
         """
         def build_xpath(attr, what, substr = False):
@@ -4948,6 +4948,15 @@ Please submit there instead, or use --nodevelproject to force direct submission.
             else:
                 return '%s = \'%s\'' % (attr, what)
 
+        # support perl package names and symbols:
+        if re.match('^\w+(::\w+)+$', search_term):
+            search_term = 'perl-' + re.sub('::','-', search_term)
+            opts.package = True
+
+        if re.match('^perl\(\w+(::\w+)*\)$', search_term):
+            search_term = re.sub('\)','', re.sub('(::|\()','-', search_term))
+            opts.package = True
+
         if opts.mine:
             opts.bugowner = True
             opts.package = True