Bug#175644: www.debian.org: searching on packages.debian.org doesn't seem to work

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

severity 175644 wishlist
severity 156794 wishlist
merge 103694 156794 175644
thanks

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:35:29PM -0900, Britton Leo Kerin wrote:
> Package: www.debian.org
> Version: unavailable; reported 2003-01-06
> Severity: normal
> 
> When I fill out the form in the Search package directories paragraph
> like this:
> 
> Keywords: gtk-perl
> Search on: X Package names only _ Descriptions
> Allow searching on subwords: X
> Distribution: any  Section: any
> 
> I get 'No responses to your query.'.
> 
> gtk-perl definately is a package, seems like its being missed somehow.

As documented on the web page...

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

gtk perl is in libgtk-perl.

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