Package: www.debian.org Hi Gerrit,
Thanks for your report, which is forwarded to our bug tracker. It seems that the "too generic" criteria/message does depend only on the keyword and ignore the remaining parameters.. On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:02:28AM +0200, Gerrit Heeres wrote: > I accessed the package search on packages.debian.org through > backports.org. I wanted to see if there is a backport for iceweasel 3.5. > So I searched for package name "iceweasel", which yielded this search URL: > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=iceweasel&searchon=names§ion=all&suite=lenny-backports > > No search results are shown, but there is a message: > > "Your keyword was too generic. > Please consider using a longer keyword or more keywords." > > The exact package name is too generic? As I am searching for package > names it doesn't make sense to add more keywords. I tried it anyway and > it resulted in: > > "Sorry, your search gave no results" > > So I tried to make the search less generic by selecting "only show exact > matches", and by selecting a specific platform, but it still complained > the keyword was too generic. Then I made the search *more* generic by > clicking "all suites". That gave me results, and the message changed to > this: > > "Your keyword was too generic, for optimizing reasons some results might > have been suppressed. > Please consider using a longer keyword or more keywords." > > From the exact hits section it became clear there is no backport for > iceweasel. > > The first search should have resulted in "Sorry, your search gave no > results", as there were no results to give. The actual message makes you > believe you can get results by being more specific, which isn't true. > > This is *very* confusing. > > It seems to me the message may be based on intermediate search results, > not the end result. Perhaps the matching package list is truncated > before looking for the packages in the requested suite. If so, the > search optimization algorithm could do with some optimization itself, in > my view. -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
