On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 12:35:50PM +0200, era eriksson wrote:
> > The package pages have a link to the search page for them now.
>
> Actually, I think it would be useful to have a couple of additions:
> the version numbers and the dates of the respective versions. Perhaps
> where the result page presently says
>
> Search for *other versions of (package)*
>
> you could have explicit links with dates and version numbers, like
> this:
>
> Other versions of (package):
>
> *(package)-2.0-4* (stable) 1996-05-29
> *(package)-5.67-9* (testing) 2001-04-01
> *(package)-5.69-1* (unstable) 2001-10-15
>
> where the asterisks enclose clickable links to the package pages for
> the named versions?
That's way much harder to implement. I'd rather you didn't ask this :)
> This IMHO clears up two problems with the current solution: (1) naive
> users will not know what is meant by "other versions" in any case, and
They can click the link and see, for crying out loud!
> (2) you are immediately made aware when a stable version is
> significantly older than what is available in testing/unstable.
True.
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