Re: [Synaptic-devel] [RFE] RPM group enhancement request

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 2 May 2003, Dag Wieers wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have an apt repository and I noticed before that synaptic is very good 
> to list those RPMs that have they're own group ;) (A wrong group).

Heh, yes, the way Synaptic shows packages it really brings out those silly 
typos in rpm groups :)

> 
> Now I've updated and rebuild all those packages so that they are in a 
> proper group, but synaptic seems to use the group of the oldest package.
> 
> It would seem better if synaptic would take the group of the newest 
> (version) package as the definitive category to list the package in.
> 
> At least that is what I would have expected ;)

The attached patch makes synaptic use the group of candidate version
(which isn't necessarily the latest but the one that would get installed) 
in the main view. 

There are actually quite a many places where synaptic shows information on 
whatever it happens to be first in VersionList which isn't necessarily 
correct, at least the following use "random" version for the information 
(from rpackage.cc):
- section
- summary
- maintainer
- priority
- description

Fixing would be quite trivial..

        - Panu -

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