The CLI interface to sphinxsearch has been deprecated by upstream at
version 0.9.9-rc2 (back in 2009).
Lots of outdated documentation still refer to it, but the official way
of testing sphinx in version 2.2 is to use any mysql client (Sphinx has
an API that is compatible with them).
It may be wise to add either mariadb-client-core or mysql-client-core as
dependency or suggestion for the package. Otherwise, first installation
and debugging of sphinxsearch may indeed be a problem.
Jef
On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:55:47 +0800 YunQiang Su <wzss...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2016 16:45:40 +0300 Anton Avramov <lu...@lukav.com> wrote:
> > Package: sphinxsearch
> > Version: 2.2.9-1~bpo8+1
> > Severity: important
> >
> > The binary for testing the configuration /usr/bin/search is missing
from the package.
> > It is used by the users to test the the index and further more it
is mentioned in too many places
> >
>
> By reading the Makefile, I still cannot know where it is generated.
>
> >
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: 8.3
> > APT prefers stable
> > APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> > Foreign Architectures: i386
> >
> > Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> > Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> >
> > Versions of packages sphinxsearch depends on:
> > ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
> > ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u3
> > ii libexpat1 2.1.0-6+deb8u1
> > ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10
> > ii libmysqlclient18 10.0.24+maria-1~jessie
> > ii libpq5 9.4.6-0+deb8u1
> > ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10
> > ii libstem
