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and subject line gtimer has been removed from Debian, closing #379117
has caused the Debian Bug report #379117,
regarding gtimer: Midnight rollover causes problems / makes no sense for
hackers!
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Package: gtimer
Version: 1.1.6-11
Severity: normal
gtimer's concept of "today" begins strictly at midnight. This is
nonsensical for many hackers, whose day is perhaps halfway through
at that point.
It would be considerably more useful if, instead of a "Today" timer,
the left-hand timer was simply a sub-total whose start and finish
was decided by deliberate user action. For instance, I currently
have to report my time monthly (but *not* calendar monthly, so
gtimer's reports are not helpful), so it would be most useful to me
if I could see the month's total on the left, while keeping the
overall total on the right.
Anyway, that's wishlist. This is the bug: The automatic rollover
at midnight causes a problem if you have left gtimer idling.
Clicking revert or resume only removes the time elapsed "today",
it doesn't rewind back to when the idle actually started if
midnight has intervened. Since it's also not possible to remove
elapsed time from yesterday using ^D etc, this permanently
mucks up the report.
So I think the wish and the bug are tied together. If the left-hand
timer's lifespan were user controllable, there would be no automatic
rollover so the bug would not present.
Regards,
Ben
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-qolc-2006060407
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages gtimer depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-10.1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk1.2 1.2.10-18 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library
ii libxss1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Screen Saver extension library
gtimer recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 1.1.6-13+rm
The gtimer package has been removed from Debian testing, unstable and
experimental, so I am now closing the bugs that were still opened
against it.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/382727 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
Kind regards,
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Marco Rodrigues
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