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-rw-r--r--guix-package.in4
-rw-r--r--tests/guix-package.sh3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/guix-package.in b/guix-package.in
index c60b15bf28..a5a1b48968 100644
--- a/guix-package.in
+++ b/guix-package.in
@@ -284,8 +284,8 @@ Report bugs to: ~a.~%") "@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@"))
(let*-values (((name sub-drv)
(match (string-rindex name #\:)
(#f (values name "out"))
- (colon (values (substring name (+ 1 colon))
- (substring name colon)))))
+ (colon (values (substring name 0 colon)
+ (substring name (+ 1 colon))))))
((name version)
(package-name->name+version name)))
(match (find-packages-by-name name version)
diff --git a/tests/guix-package.sh b/tests/guix-package.sh
index 9c50f4dfeb..7363cfc945 100644
--- a/tests/guix-package.sh
+++ b/tests/guix-package.sh
@@ -40,4 +40,7 @@ guix-package -b -p "$profile" -r "guile-bootstrap-2.0"
test -L "$profile-3-link"
test -f "$profile/bin/make" && ! test -f "$profile/bin/guile"
+# Make sure the `:' syntax works.
+guix-package -b -i "libsigsegv:lib" -n
+
rm "$profile" "$profile-"[0-9]*