On Tuesday 29 November 2016 12:51:52 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 06:31:48AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [...] > > > I just looked at the intro of > > https://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html . > > It appears that its goal is to solve my problem. I see a day of > > interesting reading ahead. > > In the meantime... would a full text search on the package descriptions > be a sufficient approximation for your needs? (I know: there is no > counterpart in the file cabinet analogy, except for possibly an inverted > index on the subtitle or something. > > Then you could just choose the variant "Descriptions" on the "Search > package directories" part.
e.g. https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=all&keywords=hardware+test You could play around with the search terms, and there are other options besides description and package name. Lisi > > Regards > - -- tomás > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlg9eegACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbEDQCeKEqnoi0EvRhcmc00K+wcYaAF > f5sAn3Ltu+VVnIsn3LSnFnu1pDYE4wUj > =A7V4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----