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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed