Note about archive/suite, note bug in amd64/security

[deb/packages.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 2570d728eacdcf44d2e95eb4c8d9b85e234a316a..2869b3b3e6361d899b8aef4ccb282a3bd39b37e4 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@ search_packages.pl:
     tersely on one line each, with "#foo" links to what's currently displayed.
   - The 'extended' can maybe also have full descriptions then (maybe add did
        to _small.db?)
+  - Unify exact & subword -- reduce naming confusion with 'exact' meaning
+       either "exactly the same" or "full word"
+  - When doing substring searches, hilight with html backgroup color (css of
+       course) the search term
 - exact package searches
 - substring searches on packages:
-  - don't do exact lookups, but use '^' prefix token
-  - only do for >= 2 characters
   - don't allow whitespace in it, warn when people use common wildcards like
        *, ?, ^, $ (not possible)
   - When overflow, iterate the first couple of packages that *start* with the
@@ -19,3 +21,19 @@ search_packages.pl:
 - fulltext search:
   - Max 100 results
   - Better exact=1 performance by indexing per word?
+  - drop case-sensitive from options, descriptions.txt all lowercase and without
+       punctuation, such that instead of =~ //, indexof can be used
+
+- backend:
+  - Ensure that in _small.db, newest version for each suite is first,
+       show_package relies on that. So foreach suite, 'newest entry', and only
+       then, all the other entries
+
+General:
+- Try to break everything with empty/short searches
+- Check for case sensitive consistency
+- Fix assumption that archive doesn't show up in any url, consistency-fy
+  dealing with archives of a different set than (us, non-us, security)
+
+Bugs:
+- amd64 security is getting displayed weirdly