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[Synaptic-devel] Patch: Use candidatever package info for section, summ
From: |
Panu Matilainen |
Subject: |
[Synaptic-devel] Patch: Use candidatever package info for section, summary etc |
Date: |
02 May 2003 19:00:55 +0300 |
On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 14:54, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2 May 2003, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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 :)
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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..
And here goes the patch, Dag says it actually even works :)
synaptic-0.36.1-candver.patch
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Re: [Synaptic-devel] [RFE] RPM group enhancement request, Michael Vogt, 2003/05/03
[Synaptic-devel] Re: [RFE] RPM group enhancement request, Dag Wieers, 2003/05/03