Package: freeguide
Version: 0.10.3-1
Severity: minor
The dates of the files in '/usr/share/doc' help readers
find what's new and different. But:
# how many files in '/usr/share/doc/freeguide'?
% ls /usr/share/doc/freeguide | wc -l
16
# count repeats of the 16 file dates in '/usr/share/doc/freeguide'
# first column is the count.
% ls -l /usr/share/doc/freeguide | cut -b 30-41 | sed '/^$/d' | sort | uniq
-c
1 Apr 13 11:40
1 Apr 13 11:58
1 Apr 13 15:24
13 Apr 13 15:48 # 13 of this one.
Something's needlessly advancing the dates, even though some files,
('README.Debain' for example), apparently haven't changed since 2004.
User experience: I'd read the new changelog, it said there was a new upstream
version, so I was trying to learn what's new by looking at the dates
in '/usr/share/doc/freeguide'; that doesn't work when the dates are
the same.
It would be better if each file was dated by its most recent change of
content.
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages freeguide depends on:
ii gij [java-virtual-machine] 4:4.0.3-3 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii gij-4.0 [java-virtual-machine 4.0.3-1 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii j2re1.4 [java2-runtime] 1.4.2.03-1 Blackdown Java(TM) 2 Runtime Envir
ii xmltv-gui 0.5.42-4 Graphical user interface related t
Versions of packages freeguide recommends:
ii xmltv-util 0.5.42-4 Utilities related to the XMLTV fil
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