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Re: What does the Quality column mean?



On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 01:35:42AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> When searching for a package on www.debian.org/Pacakges there is a Quality 
> column in the response. I do not fully understand how to interpret those 
> numbers.
> For example, http://cig.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=tk8&sear
> chon=names&version=all&release=all display in this column values between 100% 
> and 1%.
> How are these numbers being calculated and where is it being documented?

It's the search result quality, calculated by swish++. Often the real search
result quality is exactly the opposite of what swish++ thinks, too. :/

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