[Debtags-devel] Python modules and role::content:data

[Justin B Rye]

Torsten Marek wrote:
> why are so many Python modules (both pure Python and C/C++ extension) tagged
> with role::content:data?         
         
Probably because they were tagged by me, and as I admitted back in
August, I'm not really familiar with the technical side of all this
stuff about dynamic linking and object libraries.  But it's not the
devel:: facet we're talking about here, it's role::, which deals
with how packages relate to one another; and in Debian packaging
terms, "shlibs" are the things tracked by dpkg-shlibdeps.
 	          
> Should they rather be role::sw:shlib, since they
> contain shared code?
		           
Should perl modules also be shlibs?  How about /etc/bash_completion?
If the category is meant to include anything that can be used as 
modular code, can we please have the name changed to something other
than "shlib"?
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JBR
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