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. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 ======================================== Come to me, all you who labour and are heavily laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. (Matthew 11: 28-30) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]