On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:50:30 -0800 Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...The bit of text that you have an issue with is merely advisory, ... % dog "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=%3f%3f%3f%3f;dist=unstable"; | html2text | nl | head -n 9 | tail -n 6 4 ****** Debian Bug report logs: Bugs in package ???? in unstable ****** 5 No maintainer for ????. Please do not report new bugs against this package. 6 You might like to refer to the ???? package page, to the Package Tracking 7 System, or to the source package ????'s bug page. 8 There is no record of the ???? package, and no bugs have been filed against it. 9 See the archived reports or archived and unarchived reports No advisory there regarding the possible existence of packages. > ...and may be useful in the case > of packages where there isn't a package now in unstable, but there was > a package by that name in oldstable (or even just stable). Of course it's useful, but the fix I suggested would also keep that desirable behavior. > Keeping track of all of the possibly valid package names merely to > avoid providing useless text seems kind of counter-productive, IMO. Text like: "You might like to refer to the ???? package page" ...isn't "useless", it's misleading -- I know in the past I have gone burrowing around thinking there was a package named 'fou', (instead of 'foo'), and may even have sent in a bad bug or two based on that mistaken impression. Compromise kludge, (with the reservation that I believe the best fix would be to keep track of all package names past and present, and offer only valid links): print fuzzy info, and explain how it's fuzzy. Example: ****** Debian Bug report logs: No such package in unstable ****** There is no record of a Microsoft Windows Vista package. Note: while there is no package by that name in unstable, these URLs to search stable and older Debian versions might help, if such a package ever existed. HTH... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
