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  31 <h1>About Debian Code Search</h1>
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  34 Debian Code Search (DCS) is a search engine for source code — it searches all
  35 the open source projects which are included in the Debian archive (the "main"
  36 distribution only, not non-free or contrib). Currently, that includes about
  37 18000 packages with 140&nbsp;GiB of source code.
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  41 The search engine itself is based on <a
  42 href="https://github.com/google/codesearch">Russ Cox’ codesearch tools</a>,
  43 meaning it uses Regular Expressions as input. Like the codesearch tools, it was
  44 implemented in <a href="http://www.golang.org/">Go</a>.
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  48 DCS is the subject of <a
  49 href="http://codesearch.debian.net/research/bsc-thesis.pdf">Michael
  50 Stapelberg’s computer science bachelor thesis</a> (1 MiB PDF).
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  54 There also is a 50 minute talk about DCS which you can watch at <a
  55 href="https://youtu.be/4B1Kcw0LrJ0">https://youtu.be/4B1Kcw0LrJ0</a>
  56 (with English subtitles).
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  60 If you want to read more about Debian Code Search, check out the Debian Code
  61 Search posts
  62 in <a href="https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/tags/debian/">Michael
  63 Stapelberg’s blog</a>.
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  67 You can also check how other projects are using Debian Code Search, we
  68 list them on <a href="./thirdparty">third party projects</a>.
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  72 In case you have any questions which are not answered by the <a
  73 href="./faq">FAQ</a>, feel free to <a href="./contact" rel="nofollow">contact us</a>.
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  76 <pre style="text-align: right">
  77 -- Michael Stapelberg, 2012-10-02
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