#484485 apt-cache: search the Homepage field, too

Package:
apt
Source:
apt
Description:
commandline package manager
Submitter:
Peter Pentchev
Date:
2015-02-11 15:39:10 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#484485#5
Date:
2008-06-04 10:48:05 UTC
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To:
Now that the Homepage field was broken out of the Description, IMHO
the apt-cache utility should include it in the searches.  If it does
not (as is the situation now), users who have been able to find
packages based on homepage URL's before are unable to do that now :)

The included patch - patch-apt-01-homepage-001.patch (see below) -
is actually against the apt-0.7.14 version from sid, although I'm
sending this report from a lenny system.
#484485#10
Date:
2008-10-02 22:27:55 UTC
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To:
severity 484485 wishlist
thanks

In my opinion it's a good idea, though not all packages use the Homepage
field and the user might expect at least one result from the search.
Thanks very much for your patch.

Best regards,
#484485#17
Date:
2015-02-11 15:35:24 UTC
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I agree, please search the Homepage field as well, to make
bugs like #777693 not exist. Often a piece of software is
known by its homepage, or part thereof.