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Synaptic used the index via libept which has been unmaintained for ages, and which we finally managed to remove earlier this cycle from both Debian and Ubuntu. I do not believe there is a strong technical need for a system wide xapian index, if synaptic wants to offer stem based search it can build it's own index at startup in a background thread; apart from that, a normal word based search may be sufficient and as apt search shows is reasonably fast. Overall I'd encourage flavours interested in synaptic to start contributing substantially to it, as it is not of reasonably aligned with expectations on quality and how to build graphical system administration tools from even like 10 years ago. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Technical Board, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2103528 Title: Remove apt-xapian-index To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/+bug/2103528/+subscriptions -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
