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Re: Is USTB info necessary?



On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 10:38:09 +0200
Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> wrote:

 Thanks for your reply, Lucas.


> I think there a two use-cases for the Ubuntu tab (the same applies to
> the Versions tab):
> - informational use-case: "what's the version of this package in
>   Ubuntu? (would it be useful to provide a backport?)"

 You mean, backport for Ubuntu?

> - TODO-list use-case: "what are the packages with something interesting
>   (bugs, patches, diff version...)?"

 Yes, but it's enough with -devel version since its version would be
 changed if it contains Ubuntu specific changes, IMO.
 

> Actually, by hiding packages with the same version in raring and sid, we
> are breaking the "informational" use case.
> Ideally, we could solve that by having two "views": on for the
> informational use case, the other one for the TODO-list use case.

 Okay, thanks.


-- 
Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/org
 http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane


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