If I do tagging, will it be used?

[Justin B Rye]

Enrico Zini wrote:
> Justin B Rye wrote:
>>  jbr at xamanek:~$ sudo debtags update
>>  E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/apt could not be found.
>>  E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/apt could not be found.
>>  debtags: ConsistencyCheckException: Acquirer failed
> 
> Sounds like an older version of debtags which doesn't understand the
> apt:// tag source.  Is you debtags version >= 1.5.4 ?  That is the
> version where apt:// has been added.

It's still 1.5.2+b2 in Etch.  The version I temporarily installed on
Wednesday was 1.5.5+b1, which also pulled in apt-index-watcher.

>>>> And is there a way of seeing what has changed in the tags list,
>>>> other than stashing private backups and diffing?
>>> You can checkout old versions from the database and tagcoll diff.
>> I expect you can, but I'm best off sticking with what I've got.
> 
> Could you describe me what is the method that you've got?  In designing
> newer ways of doing things, I wouldn't want to make people's life
> harder.

I'm just using:

 cp /var/cache/debtags/d*current.gz ~/
 sudo debtags update
 zdiff ~/d*current.gz /var/cache/debtags/d*current.gz

Not that I'm doing any tagging just now.  Last time I tried I got a
reply full of "Unknown tag" lines. 
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JBR
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