/usr/bin/searchdeb deprecated?

[nitram]

Is /usr/bin/searchdeb deprecated?

Seems sce-import searching provides more functionality or are they linked somehow?

Partial output, i'm not running Wheezy.

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Using the repo http://security.debian.org jessie main
The below package matches are available in the main Debian Wheezy repo.


[Jason W]

Another utility that has not been visited since the early days of dCore.  It can be updated to the current package scheme.  I will look into it.

[nitram]

Just trying to save work. Does it need to be updated or can it be removed. It didn't appear to offer anything sce-import did. In fact, sce-import can search DEBs by first letters or letters containing. If you keep searchdeb, maybe sce-searchdeb would also be appropriate. Running  searchdeb  asks 'Enter starting characters of package sought'. It actually searches DEBs for letters containing (like sce-import -c). For example, one of search 'ax' returns is 'maxima'. In the end, to me it still seems like unnecessary duplication of sce-import searching, where the user can not only search but also install if desired.

[Jason W]

The searching of available packages is done by other utilities now as needed, but a standalone utility to determine available packages, prebuilt as well as .deb, can somehow be useful if only as a function called by other utilities.  I will think about it.  Perhaps renamed as sce-searchpkg or similar.  Thanks.