Re: lintian.d.o improvements
Jordà Polo <jorda@ettin.org> writes:
> I haven't changed the representation of tags yet, but I liked the idea
> of using colors, so I have been playing a bit with the templates and the
> CSS stylesheet to get more familiar with the code (right, it isn't the
> most relevant part of code for the GSoC project, but it can't hurt
> either).
>
> The changes I made to templates/maintainer.tmpl and lintian.css include:
>
> * Colorized severities
> * Summary of source packages
> * Convert tags inside <pre> to real lists
> * Add subtitles for binary packages and remove the source/binary part
> since it is now more obvious
> * More Debian-themed (it has a swirl now!)
>
> If you are interested, a first mock-up is already available[1]. Since it
> is still a work in progress and there may be some glitches, I made a
> screenshot[2] so you can see how it is supposed to look.
This is pretty!
The reason why the tags were still in <pre> was because when the extra
information wraps, it looks really odd and often hinders readability. I
didn't have the time to try to research how to use CSS to tell it to not
wrap. If there's some way to do that that works reasonably portably, I
think not having it be <pre> is okay (although the results may look odd on
text-mode browsers).
The subtitles look good here, as does the summary. I think this looks
like a great change.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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