Control: severity -1 normal
Hi Manuel,
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> I noticed this in the package view/screen of curses, under "Packages
> which depend on $blah", Suggests is often (always?) before Recommends,
> which is a bit unexpected for the user.
Hrm, I checked all packages which have an update due on one Testing
and one Unstable box. So it may be consistent per session and I got
two sessions where this was the same by chance.
> I don't remember seeing Conflicts before Recommends, and I have the idea
> of Conflicts being towards the end in most cases.
Interesting.
> Not trying to dispute that it does show like this for you right now,
> but in my system it's not "the same order for all packages" with the
> precedence shown above, so there should be some randomness added to
> the mix.
That's my conclusion from your comments, too. Raising the severity
from wishlist to normal hence, since I consider randomness at this
place a real bug and not just a missing feature.
> All the above sound sensible suggestions.
Ok, so there is a rough consensus on the wanted order. :-)
Regards, Axel
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