Hello! Martin Paul <martin <at> par.univie.ac.at> writes:
> > Michael, > > > It would be very helpful, if PCA could also display the > > „requested revision“ of a patch. > > I've always hesitated to add this as it would pretend to give > information which is actually not there. But it *is* there - it's given on the command line! > As there is no information > about past revisions in the xref file, pca can't show that either. If I > start to list the requested revision in pca's output, people will start > to assume that e.g. the synopsis and patch requirements are from that > patch revision as well, and that's not doable. Hm. Yes, people might assume that, that's true, yes. > This kind of issue has come up before because of different "minimal > patch revision required" lists (e.g. for installation of Sun Studio), > but I've not yet found a way to integrate such a feature smoothly into > pca. I would've thought that adding another column „RR“ would've been smooth, but in your first sentence of your reply, you've shown that my first take might be problematic for some people :) > Let me know if you (or anybody else) find that useful. If so, I'll put > it onto pca's contrib page. Your checkmin.pl works very well! Thanks a lot for your help! Michael
