Bug#103694: packages.d.o doesn't search on subwords in package names

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

severity 103694 wishlist
thanks

On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:52:01AM +0200, Marko Schulz wrote:
> Package: www.debian.org
> 
> Packages.debian.org does not search on subwords in package names, even
> when this is selected. Searching for all packages which names contain
> 'screen' as a subword only yields the package 'screen':
> 
>   http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=screen&searchon=names&subword=1&version=stable&release=all
> 
> but should also show packages such as 'xscreensaver'. 

Like, read the web page?

"Subword searching only checks for arbitrary suffixes, not prefixes."

> Where is the source for the search script available? I might write a
> patch for it myself.

We should probably just upgrade to a newer swish++ version...

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