Re: packages.d.o/pkgname -> stable
Hi,
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 17:12 +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:42:19AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> The idea of making packages.d.o appearance and behaviour configurable
> via cookies is on my "to be considered" list for quite a while already,
> yeah. I've mostly refrained from changing the default behaviour too
> much, though.
Since I'm cleaning up wiki.d.o, i've noticed how easily people get
confused... let me raise an issue :
Let's imagine a user X sends an URL to user Y, which has different
preference, therefore they both get a different page.
Of course, the result for packages.d.o/pkgname could actually be an HTTP
redirection to packages.d.o/mydist/pkgname, based on the user
preference. User X would have sent the URL packages.d.o/mydist/pkgname
in this case.
Also, the current behaviour has something nice : by default, people see
that stable,testing and unstable have different version, even without
having to click anywhere. A similar result could be obtained by listing
alternatives in a sidebar.
BTW, it would be nice if distributions shipping the same version could
be grouped visually.
> As for your suggestion: Your specification is incomplete. Currently
> there are at least four different things that might happen if you
> visit p.d.o/<string>:
> 1) You only get an exact hit
> 2) You get an exact hit plus some substring matches
> 3) You only get substring matches
> 4) You don't get any hits
> Does your proposal only concern case 1 or case 1 and 2?
Finally, the point 4 could be tricky to handle : if a user choose to
display unstable, but the package isn't available anymore, what would be
the best result ?
Still, i like the general idea, and thanks for packages.d.o.
Franklin
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