Package: ept-cache
Version: 0.5.9+b1
Severity: normal
The 'related' feature sounds good:
% man ept-cache | grep -n -m 1 -A 2 related
46: related [pkgnames]
47- show packages similar to the given ones
48-
But returns many duds:
# 'most' is a nice little text file pager
% ept-cache related most
beav - binary editor and viewer
gman - small man(1) front-end for X
imediff2 - interactive full screen 2-way merge tool
less - Pager program similar to more
dwm - dynamic window manager
makeztxt - Create zTXT databases from ASCII files to read them in a Palm
syslog-summary - Summarize the contents of a syslog log file
bibindex - Fast lookup in BibTeX bibliography data bases
garlic-doc - [Chemistry] a molecular visualization program - documents
qsf - small and fast Bayesian spam filter
garlic - A visualization program for biomolecules
sysv-rc-conf - SysV init runlevel configuration tool for the terminal
figlet - Frank, Ian & Glenn's Letters
tclex - A lexical analyzer generator for Tcl
ascii - interactive ASCII name and synonym chart
'less' was expected; 'garlic-doc' seems virtually random. The man page
doesn't explain how 'related' works, so it's hard to tell if the above
output is buggy, or somehow makes sense. If it does make sense, the
how and why of it should be documented in the man page.
BTW: is there any reason for the ordering? That is, 'beav' comes first, and
'ascii' comes last. And I notice 15 items per run, should there be 15 if
there aren't 15 good matches?
Hope this helps...
PS: trivia, a while back I wrote a shell script to do something
like this for 'apropos' output:
% ./whatsim.sh most
most (1) - browse or page through a text file
Wordlist: browse file page text through
3: pg (1) "browse pagewise through text files"
2: glimpse (1) "search quickly through entire file systems"
2: catdoc (1) "reads MS-Word file and puts its content as plain text
on standard output"
2: readahead (2) "perform file readahead into page cache"
2: wrjpgcom (1) "insert text comments into a JPEG file"
2: zless (1) zmore (1) "file perusal filter for crt viewing of
compressed text"
2: bzless (1) bzmore (1) "file perusal filter for crt viewing of
bzip2 compressed text"
2: preparetips (1) "extract text from tips file"
2: pstotext (1) "extract ASCII text from a PostScript or PDF file"
2: wordview (1) "displays text contained in MS-Word file in X window"
2: rdjpgcom (1) "display text comments from a JPEG file"
2: gcal2txt (1) "creates a verbatim text file from a Gcal resource
file."
2: txt2gcal (1) "creates a verbatim Gcal resource file from a text
file."
2: aviindex (1) "Write and read text files describing the index of an
AVI file"
2: HTML::Filter (3pm) "Filter HTML text through the parser"
The leading number is the number of Wordlist hits. Note that
'less' never shows up because:
% whatis less
less (1) - opposite of more
...these descriptions are sometimes telegraphic or even oracular. Without
some kind of standardization the general problem seems insoluble.
But 'most' is a bad example for both programs. This:
ept-cache related qemu
...works well. My proggie does poorly:
./whatsim.sh qemu
qemu (1) - QEMU Emulator User Documentation
Wordlist: Documentation Emulator QEMU User
3: qemu-arm (1) qemu-armeb (1) qemu-i386 (1) qemu-m68k (1) qemu-mips
(1) qemu-mipsel (1) qemu-ppc (1) qemu-sparc (1) qemu-user (1) "QEMU User
Emulator"
2: qemu-launcher (1) "Graphical front-end for the QEMU computer
emulator."
...because of a buggy 'whatis' line -- GIGO; actually it's a useful
tool for finding lame 'whatis' text. (OTOH, 'whatsim.sh' does
better on 'gedit' than 'ept-cache'.)
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Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ept-cache depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.5 0.7.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libept0 0.5.9+b1 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070627-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070627-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.1-1 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
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