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



On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:24:53PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> 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."

Sorry, I missed that. 

How about changing the text besides the checkbox from 'Allow searching
on subwords' to something which does not need an explanation? Such as
'Search also for words only beginning with the given keywords' or
'Allow arbitrary suffixes after keywords'. The first one is longer,
but I would prefer not to include the words 'suffix' and 'prefix'
since they are not that easy to understand, especially for
non-technical foreigners.

BTW: The german translation of that page
(http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.de.html) contains a little
spelling mistake ('zielmich' instead of 'ziemlich') and an additional
paragraph below the list which only repeats some of the topics. Should
this be a bug against www.debian.org too or a different package?

-- 
marko schulz

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