Source package pages don't describe what the package is for
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Julian Edwards |
Bug Description
Neither a distribution source package page, nor a distro release source package page, contains any information about what the package is for.
For example, <https:/
Distribution source packages have distribution release source packages, which produce binary packages, which have binary package releases, which have descriptions that appear in programs like Synaptic. Therefore the page for a distribution source package, and for a distribution release source package, can list each of the binary packages produced by the most recent release, along with the description included in each of them. This would be much more interesting than a complete publishing history, so should appear above it.
tags: | added: pkg-nav-redesign ui |
Changed in soyuz: | |
milestone: | none → 3.0 |
Changed in soyuz: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
I see your point, it's a side-effect of not having proper summary/description for a source.
I agree we need to find out what information we should present in this page to save clicks (users get very bored by this, indeed).
We could present the same widget we use in the respective DistributionSou rcePackageRelea se [1], which contains a tree of each binary (with its summary and description) produced by the last SourcePackageRe lease published in the released DistroRelease. That's what *packages* interface does [2]
Despite the large number of assumptions we need to do, this specific change may be awful for sources with a large number of binaries, like, for instance, in [3]. The same problem is observed in *packages* interfaces, [4].
*packages* has only one page to represent a "source version in a distrorelease", Launchpad, instead has 4 and even if the model is the same the information gets spread and harder to find in Launchpad.
Anyway, I'm glad to add the mentioned widget to the 4 pages in question, if you liked it.
[1] https:/ /launchpad. net/distros/ ubuntu/ +source/ bum/2.1. 8-1 packages. ubuntulinux. org/edgy/ source/ bum /launchpad. net/distros/ ubuntu/ +source/ linux-restricte d-modules- 2.6.17/ 2.6.17. 6-1 packages. ubuntulinux. org/edgy/ source/ linux-restricte d-modules- 2.6.17
[2] http://
[3] https:/
[4] http://