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• x/pkgsite: do not show packages of a module at the top level #37788 (closed)

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Some context: in the v0.0.1 version, the sub-package with the alt implementation was also named multee, which I fixed in v0.0.3

If I search for the module in a different way, eg. "multiplexer for io.Readers", it does show the main package.

@jba

Interestingly, a search for "ComaVN/multee" does return the package:
https://pkg.go.dev/search?q=ComaVN%2Fmultee&m=package

Threfore, this does look like a pkgsite bug (not just poor search ranking, which we have various other problems with).

If this cannot be easily fixed, would it be at least possible to remove/unpublish my package, so I can add it again, without the confusingly named /alt packages? I think that would fix it as well, no?

Here is why pkgsite shows the subpackage instead of the main one when you search for "multee":

1. Both have the same number of importers, so popularity doesn't affect the ranking.
2. The subpackage actually uses the word "multee" in its synopsis, while the main one doesn't (and both paths contain "multee" once).

So I think the search algorithm is working as intended. We deliberately don't have any rule that prefers "higher-up" or shorter import paths to longer ones, because there is no reason why the shorter path should be more popular than the longer one.

In other words, there is no way for pkgsite to know that what you call the main package is really the important one.

The best way to solve your problem is to get users. Presumably a lot more people will use the main package, and this increased popularity will push it to the top of the list.

FYI @jba I released v0.0.4 where I addressed (some of) your points, but there still seems to be an oddness to the search result: following the link above, https://pkg.go.dev/search?q=multee, still shows the "wrong" package @v0.0.3, but if I then switch to "Symbols" and back to "Packages" the correct package and version is shown.

(It changes the url to https://pkg.go.dev/search?limit=25&m=package&q=multee, so it's probably some cache that needs to time out. I tried using a different browser in in-cognito mode as well).

I'll check in a few days, and if it doesn't go away, I'll request a package removal, and re-publish it.

I think it was caching. I just tried the search and I got the v0.0.4 main package.

Same, thanks for your trouble