On Sun 17 Mar 2013 at 21:42:41 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Package: www.debian.org > Severity: minor > > Hello everybody, > > I just realised that packages.debian.org inverts 'experimental' and > 'rc-buggy'.
I hadn't realised that. Thanks. > Its list of suites is 'stable', 'testing', 'unstable' and 'rc-buggy', and its > list of aliases is 'squeeze', 'wheezy', 'sid', and 'experimental', while > 'rc-buggy' is the Toy Story name and 'experimental' is the plain English name. Now everything is clear. > I think that it creates confusion in the search page as in the > following example. > > Package euca2ools > > * squeeze (stable) (utils): managing cloud instances for Eucalyptus > 1.2-1: all > > * wheezy (testing) (utils): managing cloud instances for Eucalyptus > 2.0.2-1: all > > * sid (unstable) (utils): managing cloud instances for Eucalyptus > 2.0.2-1: all > > * experimental (rc-buggy) (utils): managing cloud instances for > Eucalyptus > 2.1.3-1~experimental1: all > > The inversion makes it more difficult to understand that 'rc-buggy' is a code > name, and suggests that the package has RC bugs, which is not the case. I'd understood 'rc-buggy' to mean 'release critical' buggy. But that didn't make much sense, so I put it down to my lack of understanding. > I looked at the code of p.d.o, and wonder if the attached patch would mitigate > the problem by inverting 'experimental' and 'rc-buggy'. Don't wonder - what you propose is correct. Whoever choose 'rc-buggy' has a lot to answer for. As a play on words it leaves a lot to be desired. At least 'sid' is comprehensible in the Toy Story context. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130317200549.GZ32477@desktop
