Re: Pathological case for Debian packages search page
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:43:43PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > > I assume it's because the search engine ignores common words like "the"
> > > :-) Also, because the BTS uses the search engine to link to the package
> > > pages, the package link on the BTS page for "the" will never turn up
> > > anything.
> >
> > The BTS uses the search engine? It does? Since when.
>
> It links to http://packages.debian.org/$foo, which invokes the search
> engine in question.
Well, packages.d.o/$foo should not be a search is all. bugs.d.o/$foo isn't a
search, it just does an exact match.
My assumption was that looking up a package exactly would do just that, and
not search.
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