Re: quality of a package
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:21:41PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > > I saw on package.d.o there is a quality percentage for each package. Would
> > > you tell me how it counts? bug reports + lintian errors?
> >
> > Those numbers have nothing to do with the quality of the
> > package; they refer to the quality of the search result (a
> > score based on your search parameters). It is calculated by
> > swish++, I do not know how.
>
> Yeah, and they should be fixed or removed! ;-)
>
> Consider that I'm looking for the package `gri' (I'll trim it for
> stable to shorthen the results):
>
> Debian package search results
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Release Quality Package (size)
> stable 100% gri-ps-doc 2.4.2-1 (610k)
> PostScript manual for gri, a language for scientific graphics.
> stable 75% gri-html-doc 2.4.2-1 (636.3k)
> HTML manual for gri, a language for scientific graphics.
> stable 50% grip 2.91-1 (95.1k)
> a GTK-based cd-player and cd-ripper.
> stable 15% gri 2.4.2-1 (654.2k)
> a language for scientific graphics programming.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Responses 1-4 shown, out of total of 4.
>
> So the perfect match scores dead last!
That's a known problem with swish++, I've reported this like several months
ago, and Jay said you'd have to rewrite it to get it to score exact matches
with 100% :/ I think we should remove the `quality' column alltogether, if
not replace swish++ with something else.
Does anyone object to me making such a change?
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