"Your keyword was too generic"

["Phil Endecott" <phil_sdzye_endecott@chezphil.org>]

Dear debian-www@lists.debian.org,

I'm not sure if you're the right contact for this, but if not
maybe you can redirect me.

I find the package search web pages at packages.debian.org are
very often useless, because I get the message "Your keyword was
too generic".

Specifically, today I found that the version of gcc in Stretch
was too old for something, and I wondered what newer versions
might be present in backports.  I ended up here:

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gcc&searchon=names&section=all&suite=stretch-backports

This just says "Your keyword was too generic.  Please consider
using a longer keyword or more keywords."  So I know that there
are gcc packages in backports, but it won't tell me which.  What
longer keyword can I use? - the package is just called "gcc",
isn't it?

Can something be done to fix this?


Thanks, Phil.