Control: reopen -1 Control: retitle -1 tracker.debian.org: show historical data of no-longer existing source packages Control: severity -1 wishlist
On Mon, 10 Oct 2016, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > The only "ancient" data that can be kept is the list of news. I'm > > not interested in showing old news of packages which are no longer in > > Debian at all. > ... > > If the source packages does not exist (as is the case here), we still > > have a nice fallback to redirect to the source package that contains > > a binary package of the same name. > > I use the PTS feature of looking up historical source packages quite a > lot, so it would be a shame if it went away with the transition to the > tracker. Fine. Let's record this as a wishlist then. Patches welcome as usual. It might even be not too hard to implement. For example by checking the number of associated news before deciding that we want to consider a binary lookup... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/
