[Debtags-devel] Meanwhile, back in the tags file

[Enrico Zini]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:36:43PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:

> Doing a new debtags update and starting debtags-edit, I find that
> more has changed than just the tag names.  Whatever happened to...
> 
> a) all those role:: tags?
>   There no longer appear to be any packages tagged by role.  What
>   happened? 
> 
> b) all those format:: tags?
>   The format:: facet seems to have been completely abolished before
>   any of its contents could be shifted to works-with.
> 
> Could these changes be connected with the huge number of
> "special::invalid" tags that have suddenly turned up?
> 
> Is this a problem in my system or has a lot of data vanished from
> the archive?

I confirm, something went wrong during the changes.  Namely, debtags
submit converts all tags in the patch to special::invalid-tag if it
doesn't find them in the vocabulary, and I forgot to run 'debtags
update' before sending the patch :(

I've resubmitted the new role:: tags: they should be back in shape on
the next nightly export of the packagebrowser.

Since I've instead deleted the patches I've sent for the 'format'
migration, I'm now redoing it starting from the most recent backup which
still has the format:: data.  I'll submit that patch in an hour or so.

I'll also try to remove all the special::invalid-tags created in the
meantime.

Luckily, (thanks Erich!) the packagebrowser does have backups.


Ciao,

Enrico

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