Re: libept roadmap/maintenance status
Hi,
anyone feeling entitled to answer this?
Otherwise I will probably assume, that libept is more or less dead and
switch over to using libapt-pkg (which will require significant effort
for packagesearch). In that case, can someone answer the question
regarding documenation of libapt:
> Is there any documentation/howto on how to use libapt-pkg? libapt-
> pkg-doc does provide some API doc and some internals, but a high
> level user guide would be helpful for this complex library.
Regards
Ben
On Sun, 2022-11-13 at 14:20 +0100, Benjamin Mesing wrote:
> Hello,
> my package (packagesearch) is using libept to access the apt
> database. Packagesearch used to use apt-xapian for searching the
> package database. apt-xapian is maintained by the QA and it suffers
> from a bug affecting packagesearch (long descriptions are no longer
> indexed). Since apt-xapian is more or less abandoned, I tried to
> switch the searching back to using libept. However libept also has a
> bug, that long descriptions are not correctly returned
> (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670569). Also
> there is a wishlist bug to abandon libept in favour of apt-xapian
> (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=540218)
>
> What I would like to know is the roadmap/direction you plan to take
> with libept. Do you plan to continue maintaining it? If so, fixing
> the "long description" bug would be important for packagesearch.
> If not, I will probably have to switch to plain libapt-pkg. Is there
> any documentation/howto on how to use libapt-pkg? libapt-pkg-doc does
> provide some API doc and some internals, but a high level user guide
> would be helpful for this complex library.
>
> Regards
> Ben
>
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