Re: packages.debian.org
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 02:45:16PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
>
> Yes, gdb works now. I followed the murphy's law, and tried
> packages.debian.org/ae. You know the story... :)
> Once again, it doesn't find 'ae' (or bc), but finds aegis{-doc}.
> It seems to be only the search error because ae's page exists at
> http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/ae.html.
> The only remaining question here is whether we have one-letter
> packages ;-D
>
If it was up to me there wouldn't be any two letter package names.
I'll add two letter words when I recompile.
> <five minutes later> I think that it is not only about three letter
> one's. I tried 'make' and it gave me only make-doc, makepasswd, but
> not the 'make' itself :( Interestingly, it found 'gcc' when I searched
> for 'gcc', but it marked it last on the list, 16%. I tried apache too,
> since -common/doc packages also exists, and 'apache' was in the list,
> but also ranked too low.
>
It appears that 'make' is in the list of ignored words. I'll recompile a
new version. There isn't much I can do about the quality results reported
(or the resulting order) without rewriting part of the program.
> Also, you realy should change some words in the output. The percentage
> column is named 'Quality' which is kind of confusing. I suggest you
> change that to 'Match:' or something else.
> It would be a good idea not to put the 'Release' column after the
> 'Quality' since this leads to output like this (at least in my lynx):
>
> 100% unstable make-doc 3.77-4 (3982 bytes)
> Documentation for the GNU version of the "make" utility.
>
> Note the '100% unstable', which may lead to confusion.
> And if you do that, remove the file size after the description, it
> can only cause the confusion (and who really needs that file size?).
>
Actually, file sizes is something many people demanded. What they probably
really want, but didn't specify, is the size of the package. They aren't
going to get it (hmmm, actually I just thought of a slick way to do that
which will only take 10 min to implement).
As for the layout, send in html markup for a different layout and if I
like it I'll implement it. Leave in the package sizes as it'll probably
be implemented tonight.
Jay Treacy
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