Wajig package suggests lynx, when w3m is ubuntu's default console browser

[Dave Walker]

Binary package hint: wajig

Wajig package suggests package lynx, when w3m is ubuntu's default console browser. Wouldn't it be better for Wajig to use w3m in this instance?

[Joseph Piché (josephpiche)]

I don't see any problem with this. I wonder though if there are some dependency issues, maybe wajig relies on lynx for some extra functionality.

[Jean-Baptiste Barth (jeanbaptiste-barth)]

I think "lynx" shouldn't only be a suggestion but a dependency for wajig : see commands.py or wajig.py, wajig uses lynx, and if you don't have it some functionalities will output an error (wajig whichpkg <file> for instance).

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe (tshepang)]

I am considering replacing this functionality with apt-file itself. The only problem with that approach is that apt-file needs to download the Contents.gz files, and each is sized around a few MB. Luckily that's basically a once-off thing, and there's no need to be connected to the web to perform the search.

The current approach is broken in some ways:
* One can't search multiple Suites (Debian Stable and Testing, Ubuntu Universe and Multiverse, ...).
* Also it can't match search terms which are paths (i.e. /us/bin/rocks won't work, while rocks will).

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe (tshepang)]

Ok, I'm not sure about the multiple suites thing. My comparison is even screwed. Ignore it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package wajig - 2.2

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wajig (2.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * port to Python 3 (Closes: #600059, by making it irrelevant)
  * AVAILABLE: add back to bash auto completion
  * rm TODO items that no one will likely implement, and add ones that
    I intend to
  * WHICHPACKAGE: use apt-file and dpkg instead of custom implementation
    to search for package content
    * local implementation could not use path as search term if package
      is not installed
    * it could also not work offline if the package is not installed
    Closes: #422500, LP: #141520
  * INSTALL: when installing a DEB file, install its dependencies too
  * UPDATE: rm dependency on dselect; use apt-get instead
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden> Tue, 10 May 2011 07:48:43 +0000