Dear Maintainer, versions 0.91.5+nmu2, 0.91.5+nmu1 do not show "quick search"
field (apt-xapian-index) is installed, version 0.91.3 on the same system has
this field

Hi there,

on my system, with trixie installed, the synapic search field is missing
too.

When rebuilding the Xapian index with 'sudo update-apt-xapian-index -vf'
the log is telling:

sudo update-apt-xapian-index -vf
Reading plugin /usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/aliases.py.
Reading plugin /usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/app-install.py.
Reading plugin /usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/apttags.py.
Reading plugin /usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/cataloged_time.py.
Reading plugin /usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/debtags.py.
Reading plugin /usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/descriptions.py.
Reading plugin /usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/relations.py.
Reading plugin /usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/sections.py.
Reading plugin /usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/sizes.py.
Reading plugin /usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/template.py.
Reading plugin /usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/translated-desc.py.
Most recent dataset:    Sun Mar  2 18:01:19 2025.
Most recent update for: Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970.
Aggregating value information.
Initializing plugins.
Reading Debtags database: done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bookworm-updates_non-free_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_bookworm-security_contrib_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bookworm-backports_non-free_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bookworm_main_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bookworm-updates_contrib_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bookworm-backports_non-free-firmware_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading de translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bookworm_main_i18n_Translation-de:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bookworm_contrib_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bookworm-backports_main_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bookworm-updates_non-free-firmware_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bookworm_non-free-firmware_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free-firmware_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bookworm_non-free_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading de translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_i18n_Translation-de:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_contrib_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_bookworm-security_non-free-firmware_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bookworm-backports_contrib_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_bookworm-security_main_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Reading en translations from
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_bookworm-updates_main_i18n_Translation-en:
done.
Rebuilding Xapian index... 97%Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index", line 104, in <module>
     indexer.rebuild(opts.pkgfile)
     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 803, in
rebuild
     self.buildIndex(dbdir, generator)
     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 776, in
buildIndex
     for doc in documents:
                ^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 638, in
gen_documents_apt
     yield self.get_document_from_apt(pkg)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/axi/indexer.py", line 604, in
get_document_from_apt
     addon.obj.index(document, pkg)
     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/relations.py", line 132, in
index
     self._index_rel(pfx, val, document)
     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/share/apt-xapian-index/plugins/relations.py", line 116, in
_index_rel
     doc.add_term(pfx + name.split(None, 1)[0])
                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^
IndexError: list index out of range


Thanks a lot and best regards,

At this moment, libept is not available in trixie (testing):

https://packages.debian.org/search?arch=amd64&searchon=names&keywords=libept

Therefore, synaptic is compiled without EPT support (no "WITH_EPT"
defined in compilation).

For this reason, quick search is not available in synaptic.

If you download and install libept-dev and libept1.6.0t64 from sid
(unstable) and recompile synaptic then quick search will be available.

Best regards.

Hello Antonio,

thanks a lot for your answer and the info.

Best regards,