Bug#59750: acknowledged by developer (Fixed)

[era eriksson <era@iki.fi>]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:48:05 -0600, owner@bugs.debian.org
(Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote:
 > The package pages have a link to the search page for them now.

Actually, I think it would be useful to have a couple of additions:
the version numbers and the dates of the respective versions. Perhaps
where the result page presently says

  Search for *other versions of (package)*

you could have explicit links with dates and version numbers, like
this:

  Other versions of (package):

    *(package)-2.0-4* (stable) 1996-05-29
    *(package)-5.67-9* (testing) 2001-04-01
    *(package)-5.69-1* (unstable) 2001-10-15

where the asterisks enclose clickable links to the package pages for
the named versions?

This IMHO clears up two problems with the current solution: (1) naive
users will not know what is meant by "other versions" in any case, and
(2) you are immediately made aware when a stable version is
significantly older than what is available in testing/unstable.

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