Make package-menu-filter-by-status work as documented

* lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package-menu-filter-by-status): Work
as documented (bug#49474).

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index da5524a5553..923cfcc4722 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1493,6 +1493,14 @@ This is a slightly deeper copy than the previous 'copy-sequence'.
 
 ** Package
 
+---
+*** '/ s' ('package-menu-filter-by-status') changes parameter handling.
+The command was documented to take a comma-separated list of statuses
+to filter by, but instead it used the parameter as a regexp.  The
+command has been changed so that it now works as documented, and
+checks statuses not as a regexp, but instead an exact match from the
+comma-separated list.
+
 +++
 *** New command 'package-browse-url' and keystroke 'w'.
 
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
index a0f1ab0ed67..6bbd4c99763 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
@@ -3954,9 +3954,14 @@ packages."
   (package--ensure-package-menu-mode)
   (if (or (not status) (string-empty-p status))
       (package-menu--generate t t)
-    (package-menu--filter-by (lambda (pkg-desc)
-                        (string-match-p status (package-desc-status pkg-desc)))
-                      (format "status:%s" status))))
+    (let ((status-list
+           (if (listp status)
+               status
+             (split-string status ","))))
+      (package-menu--filter-by
+       (lambda (pkg-desc)
+         (member (package-desc-status pkg-desc) status-list))
+       (format "status:%s" (string-join status-list ","))))))
 
 (defun package-menu-filter-by-version (version predicate)
   "Filter the \"*Packages*\" buffer by VERSION and PREDICATE.