Re: What does Quality mean?
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 12:16:44 +0200, Debian Mail wrote:
> When I do a lookup of Debian packages on debian.org, I get answers like:
>
> Release Quality Package (size)
> stable 100% libc6-doc 2.0.7.19981211-5 (0.7k)
> Dummy package to ease upgrades from earlier Debian versions.
>
> What does this Quality stand for?
You're not actually doing a lookup; you're doing a search. The Quality is an
estimate of the applicability of the search result, similar to the "score"s
on which web search engines sort.
HTH,
Ray
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