Control: clone 840062 -1
Control: retitle -1 tracker.debian.org should get a src: syntax
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 04:51:20PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> 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...
I'm cloning my main point, which is slightly different, into a
separate bug.
It should not be too hard to implement a src: syntax that disables the
"if no source package is found try to find a binary package with that
name" fallback for special cases where an error page is better than
this fallback.
This could then be used from packages.qa.d.o, and later from the
src: pages in the BTS.
> Cheers,
cu
Adrian
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