htdig changes between wheezy and stretch
Hello,
I know there has been very little development happening to this tool
since 2004.
We use it as a public search tool for our website.
A clone of our web server has recently been a subject of a distro
upgrade wheezy->jessie-> stretch.
This replacement candidate is still being tested.
There is a subtle difference in version number between htdig in both:
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/htdig
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/htdig
Which (as I'm suspecting) has somehow resulted in completely different
set of results being returned for any key word.
After running /usr/bin/rundig on both servers the results count can
differ as much as 800(old) vs 400(new).
The files lists are ordered differently and I haven't noticed any
pattern to the difference (such as e.g. missing .pdf extensions).
The /etc/htdig configuration directories are absolutely identical on both.
Can you somehow explain the differences we are seeing and advise if
there is anything we can do / try?
Regards
Adam
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