packaging/reviewing debian package addon/search-engine

[shirish]

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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 00:44, Alexander Sack <asac at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 06:55:04PM +0530, shirish wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>  Sometime back Mozilla addons got a Debian packages search engine.
>>
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10031
>>
>> This one is useful so people (like me) can look up new packages in debian
>>
>> Could this one be packaged in ubuntu either in firefox-launchpad-plugin
>> or by itself?
>>
>> Comments, suggestions for the same are welcome.
>
> I am not sure that we want to package search engines individually.

Hi asac,

> What kind of searchengines would qualify to be shipped as a package?

While I don't know the answer to that, but do know that all the
launchpad ones were packaged

$ dpkg -L firefox-launchpad-plugin
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/firefox
/usr/share/firefox/searchplugins
/usr/share/firefox/searchplugins/launchpad-bugs.gif
/usr/share/firefox/searchplugins/launchpad-bugs.src
/usr/share/firefox/searchplugins/launchpad-packages.gif
/usr/share/firefox/searchplugins/launchpad-packages.src
/usr/share/firefox/searchplugins/launchpad-people.gif
/usr/share/firefox/searchplugins/launchpad-people.src
/usr/share/firefox/searchplugins/launchpad-specs.gif
/usr/share/firefox/searchplugins/launchpad-specs.src
/usr/share/firefox/searchplugins/launchpad-support.gif
/usr/share/firefox/searchplugins/launchpad-support.src
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/firefox-launchpad-plugin
/usr/share/doc/firefox-launchpad-plugin/copyright
/usr/share/doc/firefox-launchpad-plugin/changelog.gz
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/firefox-addons
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/launchpad-bugs.gif
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/launchpad-bugs.src
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/launchpad-packages.gif
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/launchpad-packages.src
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/launchpad-people.gif
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/launchpad-people.src
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/launchpad-specs.gif
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/launchpad-specs.src
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/launchpad-support.gif
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/launchpad-support.src

Something similar (IMHO) should be done for Debian. Atleast three
search engines I do use of Debian from the mozdev site.

1. Debian packages
2. Debian bugs - by number
3. Debian bugs - by name

As an occasional reporter/syncer and triager this proves useful. If
these three are packaged in the repository it would be better.

There is always the possibility of using some more stuff that people
know/would like to query the Debian system.

Looking forward to comments, suggestions, improvements on the same.

>  - Alexander

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