APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and Ubuntu) packages

Re:APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and... by unwind on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:41PM (#35459388)

Quite neat, but I had two problems:

1. The naming is confusing, a web interface that lets you browse a particular database is not generally called "a web browser" for that database. A web browser is the actual software you use to access the web.

2. I searched for a (not so) random package [1] and quickly got a bunch of matches. I did not understand the ordering (the latest version number was not on top).

3. When I clicked the first match, I got a "Bad Gateway" error from [2], but I guess it might be squeezed by HN just now.

[1]: https://www.apt-browse.org/search/?query=gentoo

[2]: https://www.apt-browse.org/browse/debian/jessie/main/amd64/g...

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Re:APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and... by Atlas22 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:42PM (#35460105)

Regarding 3, It seems like its related to package size. Openssh-server has the same problem [3]. Was also looking at some moderately sized packages and it was struggling but would eventually return the page. Smaller packages seem to be no problem.

[3]: https://www.apt-browse.org/browse/debian/stretch/main/amd64/...

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Re:APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and... by unwind on Thursday April 06, 2023 @10:18AM (#35468617)

Also I clearly had problems counting all the way to two. Darnit.

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