Bug#1028610: tracker.debian.org: shows the short description of the binary package, which is meaningless for the source package

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 01:52:11AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2023-01-13 19:21:58 -0500, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> Otherwise, if there is a rule about the description in the case where
> there is a binary package with the same name as the source package,
> some filtering could be done based on the requirements. For instance,
> specific strings such as "(metapackage)" (or more generally, the whole
> parenthesized text) could be removed.
> 
> > You know that the source package itself does not have a description
> > field at all.
> 
> Couldn't this be a future feature?

It already is:
https://bugs.debian.org/998165


(I don't know if distro-tracker supports it, however.)
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Bug#1028610: tracker.debian.org: shows the short description of the binary package, which is meaningless for the source package

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2023-01-13 19:21:58 -0500, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/emacs (which is about the source package)
> > contains at the top
> > 
> >     emacs
> >    GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
> > 
> > This is the description of the "emacs" binary package, which
> > is indeed a metapackage. But this makes no sense for the
> > source package.
> 
> (Disclaimer: I am neither the maintainer of tracker.d.o nor emacs)
> 
> Out of curiosity: what do you expect to display?

Probably nothing, just like for packages that do not have a binary
package with the same name as the source package. Example:

  https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/glibc

Otherwise, if there is a rule about the description in the case where
there is a binary package with the same name as the source package,
some filtering could be done based on the requirements. For instance,
specific strings such as "(metapackage)" (or more generally, the whole
parenthesized text) could be removed.

> You know that the source package itself does not have a description
> field at all.

Couldn't this be a future feature?

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Bug#1028610: tracker.debian.org: shows the short description of the binary package, which is meaningless for the source package

[Boyuan Yang]

Hi,

在 2023-01-13星期五的 16:36 +0100，Vincent Lefevre写道：
> Package: tracker.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> 
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/emacs (which is about the source package)
> contains at the top
> 
>     emacs
>    GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
> 
> This is the description of the "emacs" binary package, which
> is indeed a metapackage. But this makes no sense for the
> source package.

(Disclaimer: I am neither the maintainer of tracker.d.o nor emacs)

Out of curiosity: what do you expect to display? You know that the source
package itself does not have a description field at all.

Thanks,
Boyuan Yang


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Bug#1028610: tracker.debian.org: shows the short description of the binary package, which is meaningless for the source package

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: tracker.debian.org
Severity: normal

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/emacs (which is about the source package)
contains at the top

emacs
   GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)

This is the description of the "emacs" binary package, which
is indeed a metapackage. But this makes no sense for the
source package.

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