rawhide report: possible improvements ?

[David Timms]

On 09/01/10 00:32, Rawhide Report wrote:
> Compose started at Fri Jan  8 08:15:04 UTC 2010
>
> Broken deps for i386
> ----------------------------------------------------------
...
 > 	ghc-HTTP-devel-4000.0.6-6.fc13.i686 requires ghc = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-HTTP-devel-4000.0.6-6.fc13.i686 requires ghc = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-HTTP-doc-4000.0.6-6.fc13.i686 requires ghc-doc = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-HTTP-doc-4000.0.6-6.fc13.i686 requires ghc-doc = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-HTTP-prof-4000.0.6-6.fc13.i686 requires ghc-prof = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-cairo-devel-0.10.1-5.fc12.i686 requires ghc = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-cairo-devel-0.10.1-5.fc12.i686 requires ghc = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-cairo-prof-0.10.1-5.fc12.i686 requires ghc-prof = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-cgi-devel-3001.1.7.1-3.fc13.i686 requires ghc = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-cgi-devel-3001.1.7.1-3.fc13.i686 requires ghc = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-cgi-doc-3001.1.7.1-3.fc13.i686 requires ghc-doc = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-cgi-doc-3001.1.7.1-3.fc13.i686 requires ghc-doc = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-cgi-prof-3001.1.7.1-3.fc13.i686 requires ghc-prof = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-fgl-devel-5.4.2.2-1.fc12.i686 requires ghc = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-fgl-devel-5.4.2.2-1.fc12.i686 requires ghc = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-fgl-doc-5.4.2.2-1.fc12.i686 requires ghc-doc = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-fgl-doc-5.4.2.2-1.fc12.i686 requires ghc-doc = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-fgl-prof-5.4.2.2-1.fc12.i686 requires ghc-prof = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-gconf-devel-0.10.1-5.fc12.i686 requires ghc = 0:6.10.4
 > 	ghc-gconf-devel-0.10.1-5.fc12.i686 requires ghc = 0:6.10.4

Hi, I noticed that some broken ones are duped (usually together), making 
it look like there is nearly twice as many as there really is.
Would sort -u dedupe those ?

Also, it could be cleaner and easier to read to invert or summarize the 
unsatisfied requires like:

     Broken dependencies:
ghc-HTTP-devel-4000.0.6-6.fc13.i686
ghc-cairo-devel-0.10.1-5.fc12.i686
ghc-fgl-devel-5.4.2.2-1.fc12.i686
ghc-gconf-devel-0.10.1-5.fc12.i686
ghc-cgi-devel-3001.1.7.1-3.fc13.i686
     all require ghc = 0:6.10.4, which is not available.

or
ghc-doc = 0:6.10.4 is not available, but is required by:
   ghc-HTTP-doc-4000.0.6-6.fc13.i686
   ghc-cgi-doc-3001.1.7.1-3.fc13.i686
   ghc-fgl-doc-5.4.2.2-1.fc12.i686

It might be nice to see the headings indented, and the package n-v-r-a 
info not indented, (since long package names, makes for more difficult 
to read emails, due to replies inserting quoting (> ) characters and 
oveflowing a single line.

Also the report subject could include say '-' separators between y, m, 
day, like 2010-01-08 (which is another variant of the iso format that 
still sorts by date nicely ;)