Bug 133021

Summary:	ability to search in the package details text, for better search results
Product:	[Unmaintained] adept	Reporter:	fbayer <fbayer>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Rockai <me>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	1st screen 2nd screen

Description fbayer 2006-08-26 14:06:37 UTC

Version:           2.0 (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

i speak out for the ability to search the full description text of packages for a better search result.

created 2 attachments to show for which text i'd like to search and to find the adept package.
but the second screen shows that its not found.

Comment 1 fbayer 2006-08-26 14:07:41 UTC

Created attachment 17509 [details]
1st screen

Comment 2 fbayer 2006-08-26 14:08:26 UTC

Created attachment 17510 [details]
2nd screen

Comment 3 Pavel 2007-04-06 15:58:07 UTC

I think, that it's very important to add search in full description to Adept!

Comment 4 mvo 2007-04-08 08:07:58 UTC

I see it's still unconfirmed.

Adept search return less hits than "apt cache search"

ubuntu feisty:
adept search "adept"

Result:
adept - package management suite for KDE
adept-batch - command line install for Adept
adept-common - package manager for KDE -- common files
adept-installer - simple user interface for application management (for KDE)
adept-manager - package manager for KDE
adept-notifier - system tray notifier of available system updates
adept-updater - system update tool for KDE

Result of "apt-cache search adept":
adept - package management suite for KDE
adept-batch - command line install for Adept
adept-common - package manager for KDE -- common files
adept-installer - simple user interface for application management (for KDE)
adept-manager - package manager for KDE
adept-notifier - system tray notifier of available system updates
adept-updater - system update tool for KDE
libauthen-captcha-perl - Extension for creating captcha's to verify the human element in transactions 
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libauthen-captcha-perl is found by "apt-cache-search" because of the full-description:
...The most common form is an image file containing distorted text, which humans are *adept* at reading...

So the rephrased wish is: ability to search in full-description like apt-cache.

Comment 5 tinde 2007-04-09 02:40:57 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 6 Gennadiy 2007-04-09 03:09:23 UTC

PLEASE, FIX THIS UGLY BUG!!!!

Comment 7 saman 2007-04-09 14:36:52 UTC

Fix this BUG!

Comment 8 Michi 2007-04-09 14:42:15 UTC

Fix this BUG! i agree with them all :-)

Comment 9 Lana 2007-04-09 15:51:34 UTC

Fix this BUG!

Comment 10 Nurn 2007-04-09 18:13:20 UTC

this bug should be fixed, i think

Comment 11 fbayer 2007-04-12 12:39:32 UTC

IMPORTANT: please integrate a button or a check box into adept where you can choose between the new and the old searching method. this would be better because sometimes the search results with "apt-cache search *" are very, very big (e.g. searching for "package management" in the ubuntu repositories).

Comment 12 Peter Rockai 2007-04-12 12:55:11 UTC

For all those yellers, feel free to hire me to work on whatever you like, till then please consider that this is right now a free-time activity for some of us  (and there's very little free time to divide on just too many activities).

Comment 13 Peter Rockai 2008-03-09 16:00:42 UTC

For 3.0, full-text (full featured, with stemming and proper scoring, based on Xapian) indexing of full package description is being used. This isn't exactly what has been asked (not the same result set as apt-cache search), but should be actually better for most use cases.