On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Chris Leishman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 04:18:21AM +0200, Frock wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I was wondering if there is a way to search for a particular type of > > > package in dselect (not based on it's name, but on what it does)? > > > ie. Search the description fields. This would be really useful when > > > I'm trying to see if there is a debian package of something (this > > > time it was something to do haskell with - hugs as it turned out). > > > > > > Hi all. > > In conclusion, there are a two ways of doing this, as follows: > > grep the package files (I knew this one, but it's not > the most user friendly approach) > or > use the package finder on the debian web page. > > However both these approaches have disadvantages (I'll leave it to the > reader to identify these). Perhaps a description search would be a nice > feature to add to dselect/apt. > > Now if someone will tell me how to file a wish list bug.......
download a the source package... insert code to search the description field. Post it to the maintainers ;) Alteratively, The first line of the body of the bug report should be Severity: Wishlist Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
