On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 03:50:43PM -0400, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > Results: 15 votes, 10 for making it visible by default, 5 against, and
> > nobody cared enough to start a flamewar on debian-qa@.
> >
> > So I'm making it visible by default now.
>
> I'm against that change. There are too many columns already and what we need
> is *useful* information, not just a zillion of links (for which we have the
> PTS, as it is a per-package view, instead of a per-maintainer view.)
>
> I would actually like to hide some of them by default (e.g. who uses the
> "binaries" column at all?!)
Indeed, that one is a good candidate for removal from the default display.
And a suggestion for the Ubuntu column: just show the version only if is
different from Debian's one, otherwise link some static text ("Same", "==",
whatever you see fit): differences will be seen easily, and screen width can
be saved (specially if you have packages with long version strings [0]).
regards,
[0] Example: 1.2~20100321+git4224970-1
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Ricardo Mones
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