On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:43:43PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > > I assume it's because the search engine ignores common words like "the" > > > :-) Also, because the BTS uses the search engine to link to the package > > > pages, the package link on the BTS page for "the" will never turn up > > > anything. > > > > The BTS uses the search engine? It does? Since when. > > It links to http://packages.debian.org/$foo, which invokes the search > engine in question.
Well, packages.d.o/$foo should not be a search is all. bugs.d.o/$foo isn't a search, it just does an exact match. My assumption was that looking up a package exactly would do just that, and not search.