Debian Bug report logs - #758107
tracker.debian.org: do not display section and priority of source packages

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: tracker.debian.org: do not display section and priority of source packages

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:17:43 +0200

Package: tracker.debian.org
Severity: minor

tracker.debian.org shows the priority and section of the source package
in the upper left corner (under "General").  We don't really care about
these and all new source packages get the arbitrary value misc:extra (or
contrib/misc:extra, non-free/misc:extra).  Old packages still might have
different values, including "Priority: source" for many packages...

It might not be helpful for tracker.d.o to show these.

Ansgar

Message #10 received at 758107@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

To: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>, 758107@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#758107: tracker.debian.org: do not display section and priority of source packages

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 22:28:48 +0100

Control: tags -1 + newcomer

On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> tracker.debian.org shows the priority and section of the source package
> in the upper left corner (under "General").  We don't really care about
> these and all new source packages get the arbitrary value misc:extra (or
> contrib/misc:extra, non-free/misc:extra).  Old packages still might have
> different values, including "Priority: source" for many packages...
> 
> It might not be helpful for tracker.d.o to show these.

Not displaying the data is trivially done by updating the template
distro_tracker/core/templates/core/panels/general.html but it's even
better to also completely drop the data from what's stored
in PackageExtractedInformation (under the 'general' key, see
UpdatePackageGeneralInformation class in
distro_tracker/core/retrieve_data.py).

This a good task for a new contributor. Hence I'm volunteering
to mentor anyone who wants to tackle this.

How to contribute: https://tracker.debian.org/docs/contributing.html

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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Message #17 received at 758107-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

To: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>, 758107-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#758107: tracker.debian.org: do not display section and priority of source packages

Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:48:53 +0100

On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> tracker.debian.org shows the priority and section of the source package
> in the upper left corner (under "General").  We don't really care about
> these and all new source packages get the arbitrary value misc:extra (or
> contrib/misc:extra, non-free/misc:extra).  Old packages still might have
> different values, including "Priority: source" for many packages...
> 
> It might not be helpful for tracker.d.o to show these.

Arthur Del Esposte contributed a patch for this. It's now fixed.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

Support Debian LTS: https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html
Learn to master Debian: https://debian-handbook.info/get/

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