Launchpad itself

PPA searching should using sub-string matching

Bug #380870 reported by Henrique Ferreiro
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

I was trying to find mediainfo project in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas. I used the search box typing "media info", "media" and "info" but none of them worked. I could only get a match by typing "mediainfo".

William Grant (wgrant)
affects: launchpad → soyuz
Revision history for this message
Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

Hi - this is working as intended, it matches full words only. If the PPA description had contained "media info" as two words your search would work, but unfortunately the search doesn't match substrings.

If you think this is too confusing, please re-open this bug and we'll change the text on the search box to clarify this.

Changed in soyuz:
status: New → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Henrique Ferreiro (henrique-ferreiro) wrote :

What I think is that anyone would expect it to match substrings (as bugs.launchpad.net works, by the way).

Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)
summary: - PPA's filtering doesn't work as expected
+ PPA searching should using sub-string matching
Changed in soyuz:
status: Invalid → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
tags: added: ppa
Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)
tags: added: search
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)
tags: added: ppasearch
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