Bug#742855: Sort releases correctly in tabular view. (Closes: #742855)

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Holger,

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 01:47:57AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Salvatore,
> 
> On Samstag, 13. September 2014, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > I tested the patch in my local instance. 
> 
> yeah, it's clearly the wrong patch, I attached, sorry.
> 
> > libspring-java as by now, might change in future, shows right now:
> > This should be ordered (and for future releases):
> > 
> > Bug           | wheezy     | jessie     | sid        | Description
> 
> the instance here does so, and it also orders them within releases by '', 
> 'security', 'lts' :)
> 
> And that's the patch posted for #742382, which I've attached for clarity.

Yep, my comment was about the the wrongly attached patch does not
solve the problem, and the tabular view would still be the old one.

> Regarding the patch I accidently send to this bug:
> 
> > I tested the patch in my local instance. It does sort now the CVEs in
> > descending order, which was not what I meant. We had so far the oldest
> > CVEs on top which this patch would changes.
> 
> I think this should still be done, newer stuff is usually more interesting (so 
> here) and should thus be displayed on top. The reasoning "because it has been 
> like this since always" is not so convincing.

Not necessarly, that would be my point which I want to higlight. If
you have the older CVE -- still unresolved -- on top, this will draw
your attention to them. One will fix hopefully anyway the newly found
ones, maybe referenced to you via a bugreport in the BTS, and looking
at the security-tracker it will redirect you also to older ones which
were not addressed.

Anyway, we seem the only two people invoved in this arguing ;-) I
don't have time/energy to furhter defend my point of view. So if you
think it really would help working on the tracker to invert the CVE
ordering, then please go ahead!

p.s.: I'm for example really happy to see the improvements you
      implemented regarding the URL linking in TODO and NOTE! They
      really will help on working on the tracker IMHO. Thanks!

Regards,
Salvatore