[Bug 2103528] Re: Remove apt-xapian-index

[Julian Andres Klode]

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Synaptic used the index via libept which has been unmaintained for ages,
and which we finally managed to remove earlier this cycle from both
Debian and Ubuntu.

I do not believe there is a strong technical need for a system wide
xapian index, if synaptic wants to offer stem based search it can build
it's own index at startup in a background thread; apart from that, a
normal word based search may be sufficient and as apt search shows is
reasonably fast.

Overall I'd encourage flavours interested in synaptic to start
contributing substantially to it, as it is not of reasonably aligned
with expectations on quality and how to build graphical system
administration tools from even like 10 years ago.

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  Remove apt-xapian-index

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