Brian White wrote:
>> Brian, this is a useful list, but please sort it by Maintainer or by Packa
>ge
>> rather than by bug number:
>
>Several people have asked for this, but maintainers already get separate
>reports about their packages and reports by package are available on
>the web site, so I don't really understand the usefulness of presenting
>it that way here. Is there something I'm missing?
I get a number of bug reports. Quite a lot of them relate to an obsolete
package that hung around for an unconscionable time after I had uploaded
its replacement. I don't want to close reports until the package makes it
into the distribution. I also don't want to spend time on the web looking
at bug status. If a message like yours comes along, I want to be able to
scan it quickly for anything relevant to me, in case I've missed something.
The numeric sort is of no use to anyone; the sort order gives no useful
information at all. A sort by package gives us a view of each package;
a sort by maintainer shows up which people have a lot of bugs to file.
Both these are useful information for everyone, information which is
obscured by a numeric sort.
Surely it can't be hard to do? You're extracting fields from the bugs
database by some process; just pipe it through sort before you format it.
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