[Debtags-devel] Proposed Debtags goals for Etch

[Enrico Zini]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 09:43:21PM +0000, Thaddeus H. Black wrote:

> The tag syntax needs room for at least two basic future extensions.
> (1) Some future tags will require an arbitrary integer.
>     Tag: importance::to-network-administrators:75
> (2) Some future tags will require an arbitrary package name.
>     Tag: relationship::documents:libfoo2
>     Tag: relationship::provides-headers-for:libfoo2
> In designing the syntax, please plan for such future usage.

Well, the Debtags parser can currently support that and more: it just
scans for ", " and ": " to separate tokens and items from tags.

I see where you are going.  However it is to be seen if Debtags is the
best way to encode such information, or if other fields would be better.

For example, inter-package relationships could be better encoded using
the Enhances field:

 Enhaces: libfoo2 [documents]


Ciao,

Enrico

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