Hey,

On 29/08/16 18:39, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 04:25:10PM +0200, Tomasz Nitecki wrote:
>> Adrian, the reason why usbmount is not showing up, is a 1 year time
>> limit counted from the date of removal (line 90 at [1]).
> 
> if it stays that way, it should be documented in the manpage.

I agree. If I leave any time limitation for this opportunity type, I
will add an appropriate information to the manpage.



>> <CUT>
> 
> So the benefit of the one-year limit is not really big.
> 
> A few hundred lines more or less in "how-can-i-help --all --old" 
> output wouldn't make a difference.
> 
> "--all --old" is atually much less useful when it is incomplete.
> 
> And the output of "how-can-i-help --old" (without --all) should really 
> list *all* packages I have installed that are in unstable but not in 
> testing. Currently I am getting 17 packages under "removed from testing" 
> on my computer, but any packages (no matter whether I installed them
> recently or many years ago) that were remove from testing more than
> a year ago are not shown.

I gave it some though, and I also agree. I will check if this won't
affect the dump generation time and if it's ok, I'll just remove the
limit altogether.


Regards,
T.


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