[PackageInfo] Info plugin doesn't provide a way to get further info
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu IRC Bots |
Confirmed
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Low
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Terence Simpson |
Bug Description
When '!info package' is used, it gives a brief description and version number, but not much else. While this may have answered the question, often people will want to find out more about the package, and it would be useful for the bot to provide a way of doing this. Given that we already have a web interface to the package database, I suggest using that.
Thus for instance, '!info xpra karmic', rather than returning this:
xpra (source: parti-all): X Persistent Remote Applications. In component universe, is optional. Version 0.0.6-0ubuntu8 (karmic), package size 42 kB, installed size 272 kB
Would return this:
xpra (source: parti-all): X Persistent Remote Applications. In component universe, is optional. Version 0.0.6-0ubuntu8 (karmic), package size 42 kB, installed size 272 kB - see http://
Simply append a link to http://
summary: |
- Info plugin doesn't provide a way to get further info + [PackageInfo] Info plugin doesn't provide a way to get further info |
tags: | added: packageinfo |
This is a good idea, the only issue I see is that some of the distributions ubottu uses are actually PPAs, which have no such link.
There may be a couple of ways around this, but it won't be a simple one-liner.