Bug#705550: PTS: provide more accessible package description
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> It would be nice if the PTS would make binary packages descriptions
> available more easily.
I think we need some more details or maybe a mockup/screenshot of the
suggested changes.
> I almost made this bug report just asking for the package
> description on top before remembering that was not possible
We could actually do that for single-binary source packages - just
take the description from the unstable version of the single binary
package.
> 1. display the synopsis of the description in the binary package listing
They are in the title attribute of the binary package links already,
how would you suggest to change that?
> 2. display the full description of all binary packages somewhere on the page
I think that full descriptions in general are too large to fit on the
page. Perhaps we could insert some sort of JavaScript or CSS based
popup that would show up when you click on a button/info link next to
the binary package names. Alternatively we could turn the binary
package links into links to the sid/unstable page for the binary
package.
> 3. make that description available on a single click (right now, you
> need to click through the source package listing on packages.d.o
> to get to the binary package description)
That could be done by my suggestion above of turning the binary
package links into links to the sid/unstable (or whatever dist they
are available in) page for the binary package. Would that do the
trick?
> I see the PTS page as a great "homepage" for the package, much better
> than what you find on packages.d.o, as there is more information, but
> it's clearly lacking in basic information. And I feel it's wrong to
> link to the packages.d.o pages since those are
> distribution-specific...
Binary package descriptions are inherently distribution-specific and
the PTS is mainly aimed at unstable and at people developing Debian
(especially the maintainers), while packages.d.o contains only
information for users.
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pabs
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