Comment 7 for bug 28682

The dropdown widget is a Zopeism; it's hard to imagine that a user trying to find their way around Malone can make sense of that UI. It's hard to even notice how the screen has changed, at first.

In an ideal world I'd suggest an intermediate screen that says something like:

We were unable to find an exact match for the package you specified. Please choose the nearest match below:

  (*) [ mozilla-firefox ]
  ( ) I don't know

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This could possibly be done on the main form, if the widget can be modified to draw clear attention to what the user needs to do to fix the problem (i.e. to choose an option from the dropdown, or choose I don't know.)

It seems reasonable to ensure this widget searches/shows only published packages.