On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:21:41PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > I saw on package.d.o there is a quality percentage for each package. > > > Would > > > you tell me how it counts? bug reports + lintian errors? > > > > Those numbers have nothing to do with the quality of the > > package; they refer to the quality of the search result (a > > score based on your search parameters). It is calculated by > > swish++, I do not know how. > > Yeah, and they should be fixed or removed! ;-) > > Consider that I'm looking for the package `gri' (I'll trim it for > stable to shorthen the results): > > Debian package search results > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Release Quality Package (size) > stable 100% gri-ps-doc 2.4.2-1 (610k) > PostScript manual for gri, a language for scientific graphics. > stable 75% gri-html-doc 2.4.2-1 (636.3k) > HTML manual for gri, a language for scientific graphics. > stable 50% grip 2.91-1 (95.1k) > a GTK-based cd-player and cd-ripper. > stable 15% gri 2.4.2-1 (654.2k) > a language for scientific graphics programming. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Responses 1-4 shown, out of total of 4. > > So the perfect match scores dead last!
That's a known problem with swish++, I've reported this like several months ago, and Jay said you'd have to rewrite it to get it to score exact matches with 100% :/ I think we should remove the `quality' column alltogether, if not replace swish++ with something else. Does anyone object to me making such a change? -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
