[Debtags-devel] Proposed Debtags goals for Etch

[Benjamin Mesing]

> > I don't know much about the package file format - but does this mean
> > that the Tags: field can be set by the maintainer now? If so, the
> > primary goal must be, to mostly stabelize the vocabulary.
> 
> I agree.  Ben, you're right.  But we're simply not there yet.  The
> vocabulary will not be stablizable for another year to year and a half.
> The vocabulary is not nearly mature.  Thoroughly tagging thousands of
> packages more promises to reveal the need for hundreds of tags more, and
> even to eliminate some of the existing tags.
You are right. It is probably a bad idea to fix it before we've had
broad input from users and package maintainers. I was overly eager to
make debtags as useful as possible for etch, without thouroughly
analyzing the consequences.

Greetings Ben