Re: pkg/31927: some snownews stories not marked "read"

[Antoine Reilles <Antoine.Reilles%loria.fr@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/31927; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Antoine Reilles <Antoine.Reilles%loria.fr@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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