Debian Bug report logs - #279692
planner: File format problem

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From: rich walker <[email protected]>
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Subject: planner: File format problem
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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. 


-- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

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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