[README] too broad search term for the Debian and Ubuntu repository badges

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Issue type
Documentation
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Clearly specified
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Quiet
Tech stack
debian, ubuntu
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documentation

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Start in the README and locate the Debian and Ubuntu repository badge links shown in the issue. Change their package search terms to the Taskwarrior package name, then verify both links return the intended package results without the generic-search warning.

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Description

The search term for the badge is:

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=task&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

And this is headed with a message:

Your keyword was too generic, for optimizing reasons some results might have been suppressed.
Please consider using a longer keyword or more keywords.

As it catches all the task packages from Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Tasks

Meanwhile the Taskwarrior package in Debian is named “taskwarrior” (surprising, I know ;p), and changing the search term yields the correct results:

https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=taskwarrior

I assume that it's the same for the Ubuntu badge, as the search returns only the “too broad” message and searching for “taskwarrior” breaks the search.

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