ppa packages are hard to discover
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
On Ubuntu package pages (for instance https:/
This would be far more useful if it either showed all such packages (I believe it currently only shows three) or alternatively if the link to "search for other untrusted versions of ###" searched the actual package names rather than the PPA names/descriptions.
In other words I want a way of seeing more than the three currently shown, whether on that same page or another page.
Just for some example of vlc PPAs that don't show in the three:
https:/
https:/
https:/
https:/
https:/
https:/
P.S. I note there is a ruby script that includes this functionality ( http://
affects: | launchpad-web → soyuz |
Changed in launchpad: | |
status: | Expired → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
summary: |
- easily find PPA packages + ppa packages are hard to discover |
tags: | added: ppa |
tags: | added: search |
The top three show in the same page are sorted by the karma of the source package's creator. This was designed like this specifically to a) not slow the page rendering down, b) not overwhelm the reader, and c) present the most useful results.
The "search for other" link does search on package names - if I click the link on the vlc page you suggested it reports 102 PPAs that contain vlc, including the 6 examples you've posted.
I'm not sure what else you mean? If I missed something can you let me know.
Thanks.