Le mar. 6 oct. 2026 à 13:57, Ilu <[email protected]> a écrit : > > apt-xapian-index provides general support for indexing. After its sudden > removal synaptic had to remove its indexing function.
Hi, This removal was not sudden at all and involved the removal of many parts; I remember libept, games-thumbnails, a GUI app to browse these thumbnails; I even did my part of cleanup work on apt-xapian-index itself before dropping the ball realising there was no user left. The sunsetting of debtags was publicaly announced: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/11/msg00226.html > The function apt-xapian-index provides for synaptic has absolutely > nothing to do with any "debtags" database or "debtags" in general. It even still states so in the package description, please consider update this to clearly untie apt-xapian-index from it's former debtags indexing role: """"update-apt-xapian-index allows plugins to be installed in /usr/share/apt-xapian-index to index all sorts of extra information, such as Debtags tags, popcon information, package ratings and anything else that would fit.""" > I do need mentoring with fixing the bugs though. Fixing the description would be the lowest hanging fruit. Then you can also close the RM bug with the upload. Greetings Alexandre
