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On Sun, 06 May 2007 17:49:24 +0200 |
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Hans de Graaff <graaff@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Nope. Display-If-Upgrading-From-To: wouldn't trigger until the |
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> > upgrade actually happened. |
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> Since this header is not documented anywhere yet let me ask the |
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> following questions about it: |
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> Will the news item be shown before or after the package gets merged? |
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After. For before, use Display-If-Installed: on a lower version. |
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> > You want Display-If-Installed:, because users that |
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> > have earlier versions will be affected at some point in the future. |
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> I'm afraid that this is not correct, because the semantics of |
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> Display-If-Installed don't match the use case I described. |
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> Specifically, it will cause the news item to be shown way to early |
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> for users on a stable profile. |
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Thus giving them lots of notice, which is one of the things the GLEP |
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was designed to do. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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