Re: [Synaptic-devel] [RFE] RPM group enhancement request

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 2 May 2003, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> On Fri, 2 May 2003, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
> > I have an apt repository and I noticed before that synaptic is very good 
> > to list those RPMs that have they're own group ;) (A wrong group).
>
> Heh, yes, the way Synaptic shows packages it really brings out those silly 
> typos in rpm groups :)

Well, I had only 1 typo !! But the groups that Red Hat provides seems to 
be too limited to what I want ;/


> > Now I've updated and rebuild all those packages so that they are in a 
> > proper group, but synaptic seems to use the group of the oldest package.
> > 
> > It would seem better if synaptic would take the group of the newest 
> > (version) package as the definitive category to list the package in.
> > 
> > At least that is what I would have expected ;)
>
> The attached patch makes synaptic use the group of candidate version
> (which isn't necessarily the latest but the one that would get installed) 
> in the main view. 

Yes, that's even better. Actually I meant that but of course the latest 
doesn't always have to be the candidate.


> There are actually quite a many places where synaptic shows information on 
> whatever it happens to be first in VersionList which isn't necessarily 
> correct, at least the following use "random" version for the information 
> (from rpackage.cc):
> - section
> - summary
> - maintainer
> - priority
> - description
>
> Fixing would be quite trivial..

Well, it would also be nice to have the URL (and install/build-date) in 
the package-information dialog. (And the URL should be clickable ;p)

That's about the only remarks I have, synaptic is really nicely done.

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