NetBSD Problem Report #31927

From bharder@methodlogic.net  Thu Oct 27 06:10:57 2005
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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:10:52 -0700
From: brad harder <bharder@methodlogic.net>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: some snownews stories not marked "read"
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>Number:         31927
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       snownews doesn't always mark read items "read"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 27 06:11:00 +0000 2005
>Closed-Date:    Sun Jun 05 22:12:34 +0000 2022
>Last-Modified:  Sun Jun 05 22:12:34 +0000 2022
>Originator:     bch:*:666:666:,,,:/home/666:/usr/bin/silly
>Release:        NetBSD 3.0_BETA
>Organization:
method digital logic
>Environment:
System: NetBSD manchester.methodlogic.net 3.0_BETA NetBSD 3.0_BETA (MANCHESTER2) #12: Sat Oct 15 01:11:01 EDT 2005 root@manchester.methodlogic.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/MANCHESTER2 i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
If I describe it in terms of the "screens" that one navigates...
Screen 1 - list of RSS-feeds
Screen 2 - list of stories per RSS-feed


If you select a site with unread news from Screen 1, you are presented with the current list of stories (Screen 2). Your selection is automatically placed at the first unread selection (signified by bold text). If you 'o' to open that story, a browser is launched to view the story. After quitting the browser, you are placed back at Screen 2, but the status (read/unread) of the item hasn't changed, and if you 'q' to go back to Screen 1, the number of unread items remains unchanged.
>How-To-Repeat:
start snownews
select feed with unread news
"o" on unread story (!not [enter] to view short desc.)
quit browser, quit current screen to go back to main screen.
>Fix:
pressing [enter] to view short description of stories sets the "I've been read" status, but "o" to go directly to story does not.

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: Antoine Reilles <Antoine.Reilles@loria.fr>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/31927: some snownews stories not marked "read"
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:50:37 +0200

 Hi,

 On Oct 27, 2005, at 8:11 AM, brad harder wrote:

 >> Number:         31927
 >> Category:       pkg
 >> Synopsis:       snownews doesn't always mark read items "read"
 >
 >> Description:
 >>
 > If I describe it in terms of the "screens" that one navigates...
 > Screen 1 - list of RSS-feeds
 > Screen 2 - list of stories per RSS-feed
 >
 >
 > If you select a site with unread news from Screen 1, you are  
 > presented with the current list of stories (Screen 2). Your  
 > selection is automatically placed at the first unread selection  
 > (signified by bold text). If you 'o' to open that story, a browser  
 > is launched to view the story. After quitting the browser, you are  
 > placed back at Screen 2, but the status (read/unread) of the item  
 > hasn't changed, and if you 'q' to go back to Screen 1, the number  
 > of unread items remains unchanged.
 >
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 >>
 > start snownews
 > select feed with unread news
 > "o" on unread story (!not [enter] to view short desc.)
 > quit browser, quit current screen to go back to main screen.
 >
 >> Fix:
 >>
 > pressing [enter] to view short description of stories sets the  
 > "I've been read" status, but "o" to go directly to story does not.

 This problem is not really a pkgsrc problem. It would be much more  
 productive to report the problem to the original author of Snownews,  
 at http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/
 He knows his software much better than i do, and will be happy to get  
 such improvement suggestion.
 Do not hesitate to mention the original bug report
 http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=31927
 to Kiza, and keep us informed on the way this was fixed upstream. I  
 would be happy to integrate a patch for this issue, once it is fixed  
 in Snownews

 Best regards,
 antoine

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 22:12:34 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
concur - if this is still happening (sixteen years later) please take it
up with upstream.

There are packages where we have people who know their way around the
innards; pretty sure this isn't one of them.


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