Bug#881681: www.debian.org: packages.debian.org:displays "Your keyword was too generic" message on exact matches
On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 19:19:24 -0700 Ben Eastep <shifting@shifting.ca>
wrote:
> Package: www.debian.org
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> When I search an exact package name, such as "firefox", with the
"display exact results only" option set, it is the most precise
possible search for that package. And yet, the website spits up a
nonsense warning message: "Your keyword was too generic, for optimizing
reasons some results might have been suppressed.
> Please consider using a longer keyword or more keywords." Please
consider only displaying this message when it's actually relevant (aka,
a large number of results are actually going to be displayed)
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
>
If you try and look for the same package (in this case "firefox") but
without the "display exact results only" option on, you will see that
there are more that one packages called "firefox", that is why the
system gives you the error:
"Your keyword was too generic, for optimizing
reasons some results might have been suppressed.
Please consider using a longer keyword or more keywords."
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