Bug#172197: www.debian.org: it would be nice to have search_packages output showing the section of each package

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 10:56:20AM +0100, David Andel wrote:
> Package: www.debian.org
> Version: N/A; reported 2002-12-08
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> when searching for packages with "any" as section entry it would be very
> helpful to see the section to which each package belongs right on the
> main search output page. Otherwise one has to either search multiple
> times with the different section entries or to click on each package
> separately for checking the section.
> It would be even better to include all sections right away, like
> "admin", "web", etc.

Erm, they already are. That search engine doesn't discriminate in that
regard.

> A cool thing would be also to add those sections to the "section" entry
> to make possible searching just in admin or leave out games.

Note that "section" can mean (main|contrib|non-free) and also
(admin|base|net|mail|...), so there's a wording issue there. :)

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