If I do tagging, will it be used?

[Enrico Zini]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 01:48:37PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:

> Does this mean that if I find a package that seems in need of a tag
> there's no way to tell whether that tag has already been submitted?

No: approval means copying a tag from the central database to the
Packages file.

> And if I submit a bunch of tags, some of which are accepted and some
> rejected, I won't get any feedback to tell me that I'm misapplying
> (eg) the "works-with::unicode" tag?

My idea is that tags that are not approved by the maintainer can be
automatically removed from the central database.

But then there's also another recent idea: allowing maintainers to put
tags in the debian/control file.  It's easy to create a script that:
computes the differences between what's in debian/control and what's in
the central database; asks the maintainer for approval; sends the
correction to the central database; updates the control file.  Easier
than creating that web interface.  And one can have both: packages that
use tags in debian/control (e.g. where the maintainer would like to
control the tags) and packages that get the tags via the overrides
created using the reviewed tags.


Ciao,

Enrico

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