On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 05:46:56PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 01:15:29PM +0000, Paul Wise wrote: > > > > No, did I give that impression? Sorry, search is going to stay > > > with regex on (I think it's) package names and descriptions. > > > > Speaking of search, are the apt maintainers aware of apt-xapian-index > > and do you have any thoughts on it? > > Speaking as the original author of apt-xapian-index, I orphaned it some > time ago, since nobody's ever built anything, to my knowledge, on top of > its index[1]. aptitude can use apt-xapian-index for searching I think, and I think xapian-style fulltext search makes a lot of sense for the search command, but I have not looked into it closely. > > I assume that the various package management UIs that we have now, are > building their own indices on top of appstream metadata, possibly with > the advantage of it being independent from the underlying packaging > technology. Yes, AppStream has taken over most of the stuff apt-xapian-index was envisioned for I think. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
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