Re: New and Obsolete
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Behan Webster wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >
> > > - For a new package there should be a little new graphic
> > > - For an obsolete package there should be a little "x" (or something
> > > like that)
> >
> > Okay, how on earth are we going to do this :>
> >
> > The only thing I can think of is to keep a list of all previous packages
> > and match that list against the new list when new packages are downloaded.
> >
> > But this will mean that if you lose a package file then everything will
> > become obsolete!
> >
> > How long will the state of 'new' last? Only for one load or until a new
> > packages file is pulled down?
> >
> > Any thoughts on this?
>
> Yes. In fact there have been many discussions about this on
> Debian-devel at the time that I released my UI spec. I'd have to go
> back over my message logs.
>
> I wanted to do it such that if a package didn't appear anywhere in any
> archive in your source list that it was marked obsolete (just for the
> current session). That doesn't mean that it's deleted or the suggestion
> is even made that it's removed. It's just marked obsolete.
Hm can be done, I'll do it when the cache generator gets it's big overhaul
sometime 'later'..
The other techniques should be able to exist happily as well so no
worries.
Jason
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