package name search looks for a literal substring - 'restricted modules' matches no packages

Bug #64084 reported by Kevin Kubasik
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

In a page like
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/<insert bug number>
When a user clicks on 'Ubuntu' (under 'Affects') and then attempts to choose a package (via search). The search is not very comprehensive, it should allow the user to search for 2 words like

'restricted modules'

and match a package such as linux-restricted-modules, however it doesn't. It will only match an exact string such as 'restricted-modules'.

Changed in launchpad:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Diogo Matsubara (matsubara) wrote :

This is similar to bug 268302

Changed in malone:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in malone:
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

From a duplicate:
If you search for a package name with the ajax picker, it will display a description without the actual package name, so it is hard to distinguish between packages. You can see this problem by clicking on the "Choose" link next to the "Package" field on this form.

https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/80603/+edit

This can be fixed either by changing the title of the vocabulary entries or by adding an IPickerEntry adapter in lib/canonical/launchpad/browser/vocabulary.py.

tags: added: packages
tags: added: filebug-package
summary: - In Distro Product Search: Cannot match multiple strings
+ package name search looks for a literal substring - 'restricted modules'
+ matches no packages
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: package-picker vocabulary
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: target-picker
removed: package-picker
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → Steve Kowalik (stevenk)
assignee: Steve Kowalik (stevenk) → nobody
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: Curtis Hovey (sinzui) → nobody
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