Package: planner
Version: 0.12-3
Severity: wishlist
The output format for planner, both to database and to file, has a bad
problem. It supports an id="" attribute for all items in the file, and
uses this to cross-reference - fine. However, planner generates these
ID's as integers numbered-from-1 every time the plan is output.
This means that it is impossible to do concurrent work on a plan!
If the plan is kept under a source-code-management system, the ID
numbers make it impossible to merge plans. Likewise in databases.
The in-program datastructures don't make use of the ID.
If the ID were a string, generated like "<username>-<host>-<datestamp>",
which was GQuarked on load/save of the file, then it would be possible
to store the plans sensibly under CVS, which would make this program
useful.
cheers, Rich.
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Versions of packages planner depends on:
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-5 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-4 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libbonobo2-0 2.6.2-7 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.6.1-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libesd0 0.2.35-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.6.4-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libgda2-1 1.0.4-1 GNOME Data Access library for GNOM
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.0-1 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.7-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.2.1-3 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.6.1.2-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.6.1.1-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.8.0.1-2 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.6.2-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture U
ii libgnomeui-0 2.6.1.1cvs-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.6.2-2 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-9 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libgpg-error0 1.0-1 library for common error values an
ii libgsf-1 1.10.1-1 Structured File Library - runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.1-4 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii libtasn1-2 0.2.10-3 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxml2 2.6.11-5 GNOME XML library
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.8-5 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-9.1 A free electronic cataloging syste
ii shared-mime-info 0.15-1 FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-1 compression library - runtime
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