Human readable repositories in synaptic

Bug #8103 reported by Jean Privat
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
synaptic (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Repositories source are unreadable for standard human

Why? There is no way to easily understand what for each repository is used

How to improve?
In the list, instead of URI put a localized name (eq. "security updates" or
"mises-à-jour de sécurité" if french)
In the text-boxes add the corresponding name field (for editing) and a localized
long description field (eq. "This Internet repository provide security updates
for Ubuntu. If you have a Internet connexion, it is recommended that you select
at least this repository.")

How to implement?
While synaptic uses the /etc/apt/sources.list also used by others tools like
apt, one solution is to write these information in the comments lines. For example:

#:name:C:security updates
#:name:fr:mises-à-jour de sécurité
#:description:C:This Internet repository provide security updates for Ubuntu. If
you have a Internet connexion, it is recommended that you select at least this
repository.
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty-security main restricted

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

I like the idea. I'll have to think about the i18n stuff a bit though.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Have you checked the new repository dialog in synaptic? It contains "matchers"
for ubuntu and debian so most standard repositories should be human readable now.

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Jean Privat (privat) wrote :

Wonderful ! It is very good.

I have only some simple remarks that may me focused later.

* no "Help" button
* "advanced edit" and "add" dialogs are not the same.
* mirrors (like ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/) are not handled
* When there is a comment, use it instead the url as title
* Add a debian or ubuntu logo for official repositories (as in the package list)

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Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Well, it seems that this bug was fixed for a long time now :-) (at least it works for me).

Thanks for the bug and thanks for the implementation !

If you have any other suggestions (like in your last comment), feel free to open a new bug.

Changed in synaptic:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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