Re: Wishlist for dselect (was Re: Searching in dselect)
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Chris Leishman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 04:18:21AM +0200, Frock wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if there is a way to search for a particular type of
> > > package in dselect (not based on it's name, but on what it does)?
> > > ie. Search the description fields. This would be really useful when
> > > I'm trying to see if there is a debian package of something (this
> > > time it was something to do haskell with - hugs as it turned out).
> > >
>
>
> Hi all.
>
> In conclusion, there are a two ways of doing this, as follows:
>
> grep the package files (I knew this one, but it's not
> the most user friendly approach)
> or
> use the package finder on the debian web page.
>
> However both these approaches have disadvantages (I'll leave it to the
> reader to identify these). Perhaps a description search would be a nice
> feature to add to dselect/apt.
>
> Now if someone will tell me how to file a wish list bug.......
download a the source package...
insert code to search the description field.
Post it to the maintainers ;)
Alteratively,
The first line of the body of the bug report should be
Severity: Wishlist
Matthew
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