Re: What replaces glimpse?
On 03 Sep 2001, Andras BALI wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 03:14:58PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> > > Apt/dselect has just removed my glimpse package :-(
> > > What is supposed to replace this?
>
> > I've occasionally found packages removed in updates, recently it was
> > aptitude. Not sure why.
>
> No, glimpse is removed from the Debian archive for good due to the
> fact that there was no new upload for almost three years and it had a
> grave security bug since March 2000. Newer upstream versions of
> glimpse seems to have unacceptable license for Debian.
>
> More information:
> http://bugs.debian.org/glimpse
> http://bugs.debian.org/60852
> http://bugs.debian.org/109355
> http://webglimpse.net/licensing.html
>
> You could try `htdig', `namazu' or `swish++' for indexing your
> documents.
>
> --
> BALI, Andra's GPG keyID: 78560E1C
> drewie@bigfoot.com bali@debian.org andras.bali@stud.bke.hu
Yes, after looking at the glimpse web page I gathered that it was
probably a 'political' decision to remove it; it seems to have become
shareware, so it's fair enough.
Htdig seems to be for html only. Namazu didn't work for me - kept producing
error messages in Japanese! I got the swish++ deb package but it didn't
install the binary - a bug in the package on testing? Finally I got the
tar.gz package from the swish++ website (it's actually NOT compressed,
just a tar package), and it seems to be working now after compiling.
Thanks to all for help.
Anthony
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