unnecessary truncation in queue output

Bug #51007 reported by Colin Watson
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Won't Fix
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

   49100 | -B | libcrypt-openssl-ran | 0.03-1 | six days
         | * libcrypt-openssl-random-perl/0.03-1/amd64 Component: main Section: perl Priority: OPTIONAL

The source package name is truncated from "libcrypt-openssl-random-perl" to "libcrypt-openssl-ran". I don't see a particularly good reason for this - it's more important to display the data than to make it look pretty - and it makes it difficult to copy and paste from queue output into queue processing commands. (Note that the untruncated lines beginning with "| *" aren't enough, because (a) they list binary package names rather than source package names, and (b) the "/" immediately following the binary package name means that I can't use my terminal's "double-click to select a word" feature without reconfiguring my terminal.)

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Confirming. This makes parsing the output an awful lot more complicated than it would need to be.

Changed in soyuz:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Celso Providelo (cprov)
Changed in soyuz:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
tags: added: soyuz-ftpmaster-tools
Revision history for this message
Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

After discussing this with wgrant I'm going to close it wonfix because:
 - we're very unlikely to get to it with the current workload
 - if it was really impacting archive admins you would have submitted a fix (its shallow)
 - we /will/ have a solid web UI for doing queue processing as part of the derived distributions work.

Changed in launchpad:
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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