Apt remove - why don't regular expressions work?

Question

linux

On the main system - (Linux Mint 19.3) apt version 1.6.1 is installed. If you enter in the console:

sudo apt purge celluloid rhythmbox simple-scan hexchat transmission-gtk thunderbird libreoffice* gnote onboard redshift timeshift* gnome-calendar

then everything works, the packages are removed, and if some packages are missing, just apt shows which packages are missing, and removes the rest.
Mint 20.1 BETA was released the other day. There apt is already version 2.0.2. Only apt behaves incorrectly. If you try to remove libreoffice, then nothing will work:

(CHROOT) [email protected]_19:/# apt remove libreoffice* 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libreoffice*

Looked at https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/apt - the latest stable version of apt is 1.8.2.2.
The question is, are regular expressions broken in apt(v2.0.2), or have they been cut out of apt?

Answer 1

They are not broken, they are tidied up. Instead of guessing what is regular and what is not, unambiguous apt-patterns are introduced:apt remove ?name(^libreoffice)