# dcs

**Repository Path**: mirrors_debian/dcs

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: dcs
- **Description**: Debian Code Search (codesearch.debian.net) is a search engine that searches through all the 130 GB of open source software that is included in Debian. Supports regular expressions!
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: BSD-3-Clause
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-22
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-23

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

[![GitHub Actions CI](https://github.com/Debian/dcs/actions/workflows/go.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/Debian/dcs/actions/workflows/go.yml)

Please read http://codesearch.debian.net/research/bsc-thesis.pdf first!

cmd/
    dcs-unpack - tool to unpack a debian source mirror
    dcs-index - tool to create an index from a debian source mirror
    compute-ranking - computes the ranking of each package/file
    dcs-web  - the code search web application itself
    index-backend - simple server which provides (a shard) of the index to dcs-web
    source-backend - simple server which provides the debian source to dcs-web

debian/
    The Debian packaging, which currently is very hacky due to Go packaging
    being hard in Debian currently. Patches welcome.

index/
    Copied from code.google.com/p/codesearch. Parts were re-written in
    hand-optimized C code (posting list decoding).

regexp/
    Copied from code.google.com/p/codesearch. Returns results in a data
    structure instead of printing them to stdout.

static/
    Static assets + HTML files (FAQ etc.)