Devuan bug report logs - #228
Long description truncated from packages when using 'apt cache search'

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From: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-ujm2000@yahoo.com>

To: submit@bugs.devuan.org

Subject: Long description truncated from packages when using 'apt cache search'

Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 18:23:16 +0100

Package: apt

Version: 1.0.9.8.4

As described here:
https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/issues/75

and here:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2231

it seems most packages (most likely only those imported straight from
Debian) have the long description truncated.

Example: on a Debian Jessie system:

$ apt-cache search keyer
tlf - console based ham radio contest logger
tucnak2 - VHF/UHF/SHF Hamradio contest log version 2
$

On a Devuan Jessie system:

$ apt-cache search keyer
$

In which case the user will miss valuable information.

Regards

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

To: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-ujm2000@yahoo.com>, 228-done@bugs.devuan.org

Cc: devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org, dng@lists.dyne.org

Subject: Re: bug#228: Long description truncated from packages when using 'apt cache search'

Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 12:02:38 +0100

Thanks for your patience.

This issue is now resolved in the amprolla instance serving
pkgmaster.devuan.org and the round-robin mirrors (deb.devuan.org) which derive
from it.

packages.devuan.org is deprecated and will be decommissioned very soon so its
amprolla instance has not been updated.

Ensure you are using deb.devuan.org in your sources.list to get long package
descriptions.

Mark

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