[Debtags-devel] where to end debram development

[Enrico Zini]

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On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 04:53:55PM +0000, Thaddeus H. Black wrote:

> What we would therefore like to know is, would
> autodebtags find 97 to 98 percent ramification
> accuracy acceptable?

Some time ago I added debram support to autodebtag and I had my first
experience with mapping debram into debtag.

One of the problems that I have found is applying a list of tags to a
ramification so that all those tags can be applied to all packages
in that ramification.  This is not always easy to do: if I take
1823 X FONTS, for example, I would like to tag them with 'role::font' or
'x11::font', but I can't because there are font programs and not only
fonts.  Or I would like to tag them with 'interface::x11', but I can't
because there are fonts packages inside.  So, I can only map that to
'media::font', and with such a coarse mapping the accuracy you mention
is really not needed, and not worth the effort.

One possible thing you could do, however, if you're going through the
ramification file, is trying to associate some tags to ramifications, so
that they can be picked up by autodebtag.  It would be interesting to
have them directly in the debram file, but if that can be a problem
you can put them in the autodebtag script: there's a (big) table for
that at the beginning of the script.

BTW, how do you define accuracy?


Ciao,

Enrico

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