Hello Jonathan Thanks for reporting this bug.
On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 21:40:18 +0800 Jonathan Wiltshire <j...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: www.debian.org > Severity: normal > > A number of search languages end up with no results for contextually > common search terms, for example "debian" or "buster". > > To reproduce: > - use the search box for the term "buster" in English. There are a > number of results including release information, news items and > errata. > - set the language to Vietnamese, Chinese or similar and search again > - there are no results. I can reproduce that. However, searching in Vietnamese for "Debian" or "Buster" shows results. E.g. the search for "Buster" in Vietnamese produces this link as first match: https://www.debian.org/releases/index.vi.html 100% relevant, matching: buster Interestingly, it says "matching: buster" (smallcaps, but I searched for Buster) If I search for "buster" (with quotes), I also get the results. > > I assume that this is an issue with translations into non-Latin > character sets without hint words nearby the translated word. > I think it's not related to character sets because I've tested with Esperanto (latin character set) and saw the same behaviour. The relevant code in the Debian website about this bug is in the file webwml/english/search.xml.in, that I think it just sends the search term to the search engine (which is in search.debian.org): <: my $ext = lc('$(CUR_ISO_LANG)'); $ext =~ s/-/_/; print 'template="https://search.debian.org/cgi-bin/omega?P={searchTerms}&HITSPERPAGE={count?}&DB='.$ext.'[CN:-cn:][TW:-tw:][HK:-hk:]"/>'; :> I couldn't find a canonical repository or pseudopackage related to search.debian.org. For what I've search, it is a "a slightly patched xapian-omega instance". I've logged in the machine and the code there has two remote repositories. I'm CC'ing Raphael Geissert (shown as contact for comments in the search result pages) and Olly Betts (shown as the author of the last commits in the repo that is currently deployed in search.debian.org). I hope they can help or tell us how to proceed. Cheers -- Laura Arjona Reina https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
