Comment 1 for bug 73116

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Celso Providelo (cprov) wrote :

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 DistributionSourcePackageRelease [1], which contains a tree of each binary (with its summary and description) produced by the last SourcePackageRelease 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
[2] http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/edgy/source/bum
[3] https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17/2.6.17.6-1
[4] http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/edgy/source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17