What is wrong with the debtags database?

[Daniel Hartwig]

Hello

On 28 May 2013 21:25, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
> apt-cache show that field::arts is set, role::program is set, and
> use::learning is set, but the search for packages with these tags set
> fail to match stopmotion.
>
> The same problem affect other packages to, so stopmotion is just my
> test package.
>
> I've already executed 'apt-get update;update-apt-xapian-index' as root
> to ensure everything should be up-to-date.
>

You should ‘apt-get update && debtags update &&
update-apt-xapian-index’ as the debtags and apt databases are
separate.  Updating axi may be optional.

Note that the tags data in a package record (apt-cache) is still
subject to override similar to priority on some packages.  For
stopmotion though you should get the expected results after updating
debtags.

Regards