Re: Pathological case for Debian packages search page

2002-11-21 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:43:43PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > > I assume it's because the search engine ignores common words like "the" > > > :-) Also, because the BTS uses the search engine to link to the pack

Re: Pathological case for Debian packages search page

2002-11-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:43:43PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > I assume it's because the search engine ignores common words like "the" > > :-) Also, because the BTS uses the search engine to link to the package > > pages, the package link on the BTS page fo

Re: Pathological case for Debian packages search page

2002-11-21 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, H. S. Teoh wrote: > I assume it's because the search engine ignores common words like "the" > :-) Also, because the BTS uses the search engine to link to the package > pages, the package link on the BTS page for "the" will never turn up > anything. The BTS uses the search eng

Re: Pathological case for Debian packages search page

2002-11-21 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 06:18:30PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > This package: > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/the.html > > > > never shows up when you search for "the" in > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > > > > I assume it's because the search engine ignores

Re: Pathological case for Debian packages search page

2002-11-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:31:52PM -0500, "H. S. Teoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > This package: > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/the.html > > never shows up when you search for "the" in > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > > I assume it's because the s