On Monday 17 January 2011 21:23:45 Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Until recently, the name of the affected package was printed as first
> word on the subject line. Now the subject starts with "Security update
> for"
> 
> The first (old) version is much better, I already know (from sorting,
> from the sender email etc.) that this is a DSA. On limited screen
> space, the subject is usually truncated, so in the old version I
> immediately see which package is affected. Now I cannot. Compare the
> following two lines from my security folder in mutt:
>    4     Sep 20 Stefan Fritsch  ( 14K) [SECURITY] [DSA-2112-1] New bzip2
> package 5 N   Jan 17 Moritz Muehlenh (2,1K) [SECURITY] [DSA 2148-1]
> Security update f -*-Mutt: =IN.Security [Msgs:5
> Inc:5  58K]----------------------------- Debian --
> 
> For the "old" one I see what package is affected whereas for the new
> one I cannot.
> 
> Could you please return to the old subject line?

I think this is a good point. Maybe not return to the old subject per se, but 
moving the package name to the start of the subject makes sense to me.


Thijs

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