On Jan 9, 2008 11:37 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Jan 9, 2008 3:50 AM, Karolina Lindqvist

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Is it possible to make the box for comment, in the flag package out-of-date, a little bit bigger? As it is now, it is hard to see what you write, if you want to explain your findings.

Erm, I don't think you should really need to "explain" why something is out of date. If there are "findings" and "explanations" involved, that sounds like a bug report to me

Eh, not always - I've gotten a few out of date reports of the form "website moved to here: <url>, new sources available here <url>"

2008/1/9, Aaron Griffin :

Right. Let me rephrase that a little. I don't think they need explanations that would overflow that box, except for possible URL runoff, but that's to be expected

I think I'm with Karolina here, I remember I had the same impression a couple of times. It happened, if I want to speed up the upgrade and save some work to the maintainer, that I'd send a full PKGBUILD. If the update is non-trivial, that is. Corrado

On Jan 9, 2008 11:54 AM, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

2008/1/9, bardo :

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2008/1/9, Aaron Griffin :

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Right. Let me rephrase that a little. I don't think they need explanations that would overflow that box, except for possible URL runoff, but that's to be expected

I think I'm with Karolina here, I remember I had the same impression a couple of times. It happened, if I want to speed up the upgrade and save some work to the maintainer, that I'd send a full PKGBUILD. If the update is non-trivial, that is.

I have nothing against increasing the size of out-of-date comment box, but in case of large text, PKGBUILDs, even tarballs - send this directly to maintainer by email.

Thanks Roman, that's exactly what I was trying to say, but you were more concise. Increasing the size isn't a problem, but a request to increase the size kinda makes me say "huh? wtf information are you trying to send?" Consider this: if you send a PKGBUILD via that box, how do you know you're not making someone's life harder? There might be wrapping issues, escaped chars (it is a web form) and all that fun stuff.