Bug#63519: www.debian.org: Please add link back to search form from package search result pages
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 07:48:39AM +0300, era eriksson wrote:
> > I've added a link to packages.debian.org page at the bottom of the
> > package search results pages (search_packages.pl).
>
> Thanks, although I don't see it yet.
How come? It's there, in the bottom right corner, link is "Packages search
page"...
> Do you think the following page in the chain could also be changed? If
> I search for "netstd" I get a listing search_packages.pl but the pages
> I get to when I link from that one could also have the search form.
Yeah, but that a) requires me to know what's the script to generate those
pages, and I haven't figured that one yet and b) would need that we
regenerate all of those pages, and then remirror all 71MB of them. :)
But, since a lot of them gets modified quite often, and the release is near,
it should be done now, and we'll let b) happen after release, as usual.
> > I thought of modifying the package download page (download.pl), but
> > that one doesn't really seem too connected to the search page.
>
> That one in particular is where you'd like to perform additional
> searches. You click to download the package you wanted, then want to
> search for another package. Why shouldn't there be a search form on
> that page then? This is fairly run-of-the-mill procedure in search
> engines these days. You don't want to have to surf back several steps
> just to be able to perform another search.
Well, the 'Back' button is all that uncommon, either. (although it wouldn't
be wrong to put that link there, yes, but I still don't have those perms)
> > Besides I didn't have sufficient permissions, the file is g-w...
>
> Sounds good :-)
:) I meant that the file on the server is in the right group (which I am in,
too), but it's not g+w.
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