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mlocate package

Search with diacritics / accents / spaces characters

Bug #1752148 reported by Marco Trevisan (Treviño) on 2018-02-27

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	mlocate (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
	plocate (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Would be great to have the alternative to search considering non-ASCII chars like ASCII ones, a == âàáäÂÀÂÄ, so if I search for "Trmač" brings me "trmac" too.

Reported upstream at https://pagure.io/mlocate/issue/40

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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) on 2018-02-27

summary:

- Search with diacritics / accents characters
+ Search with diacritics / accents / spaces characters

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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote on 2018-02-27:

mlocate-upstream-patches+matches-improvements.debdiff Edit (78.7 KiB, text/plain)

Fixed in this debdiff, together with other cherry-picked upstream fixes

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added: patch

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2018-02-28:

thanks Marco, let's get that in before ff so we can land the nautilus changes

Changed in mlocate (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2018-02-28:

This bug was fixed in the package mlocate - 0.26-2ubuntu2

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mlocate (0.26-2ubuntu2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Imported patches from upstream:
    - debian/patches/0001-Call-AM_PROG_AR.patch
    - debian/patches/0002-Fix-typos-in-roff-directives.patch
    - debian/patches/0003-Update-gettext-version-to-silence-autotools-warnings.patch
    - debian/patches/0004-Fix-a-typo-in-temporary-umask-value.patch
    - debian/patches/0005-Rename-db.h-include-guard-to-be-more-specific.patch
  * Added patches to improve matching of string (pending upstream review)
    Fixes LP: #1752148:
    - debian/patches/0006-locate-add-transliterate-support-using-iconv-to-matc.patch
    - debian/patches/0007-locate-add-ignore-spaces-option-to-ignore-word-separ.patch

-- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:25:40 +0100

Changed in mlocate (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2022-02-10:

Debian has moved from mlocate to the independent plocate codebase for performance reasons and we are following suit in Ubuntu 22.04. Unfortunately the patch for transliteration support is non-trivial to port and I am dropping it as part of the plocate takeover of the mlocate package. I am therefore opening a bug task on plocate for this issue since the package is now affected.

An updated patch that applies against plocate would be welcome.