Searching keywords fails to find existing package.

Bug #53564 reported by Karim Naqvi
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
synaptic (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: synaptic

Using breezy, synaptic 0.57.4. When searching for the package 'minicom' by name it is found correctly. When searching for keywords known to occur in the description of the minicom package it fails to find minicom.

To reproduce:
1. Run Synaptic, press Search, and choose "Description and Name". Search for 'minicom'. The package is correctly found, no problem. The text description includes the line "friendly menu driven serial communication program"
2. Press Search and now search for the text "serial communication" (the quotes are not present in the search string). It finds 7 matching packages: ckermit, kmd, powstatd-crypt, snooper, socat, tilp, uucp. But NO minicom. Apparently, the search feature searches the long description, but does not search the brief "one-liner" description. Perhaps it should.

Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

thanks for your bugreport.

This is fixed in the current version of synaptic in edgy.
thanks,
 Michael

Changed in synaptic:
assignee: nobody → mvo
importance: Untriaged → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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