[Debtags-devel] What about the lonely tags?

[Torsten Marek]

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Enrico Zini schrieb:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 05:42:50PM +0100, Torsten Marek wrote:
> 
> 
>>what is happening with the lonely tags (= tags without facets)?
>>I just had a look at the new package browser and the tagging interface, and they
>>were taking up some space.
>>Currently, these are (grep "Tag: [0-9a-z\-]*$" debian-packages)
>>Tag: educational
> 
> ...
> 
>>Tag: vi
>>As it seems, no packages use these tags. Can they be removed?
> 
> 
> Almost.  Here's what is happening:
> 
>  - Those tags are still available in Erich's packagebrowser: you can see
>    them in the tag database at
>    http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tags/tags-current.gz
>  - Since the various debtags code assumes tags to have a facet, during
>    "debtags update" those tags are automatically assigned the facet
>    "legacy".  This is why you don't see any package using those tags.
> 
> What would need to be done would be to rename those tags into their
> faceted counterparts.  Unfortunately, this is not always easy to do:
> 
>  - some of them are too broad: "netcomm, protocols"
>  - some of them don't have a place in the vocabulary, like "office"
>    (for office, the idea is that "office" is more like a marketing thing
>    and categories should be more meaningful, such as editing, drawing
>    and so on)
> 
> So, what would need to be done would be to check the packages that have
> those tags, and try to replace those tags with one of the other faceted
> ones, or to remove them when all the information they convey is already
> expressed by the other faceted tags.  For example, one could remove
> 'protocols' when a package already has one of the 'protocol::*' tags.
> 
> To do this work, tagcoll and tagcolledit may come useful.  Here is an
> exaple:
> 
>   # Fetch the unmangled archive
>   wget http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tags/tags-current.gz
>   gunzip tags-current.gz
> 
>   # Find the 'protocols' tags of packages that don't have a
>   # corresponding protocol::*
>   taggrep 'protocols && !protocol::*' tags-current  > protocols
> 
>   # Make a working copy, keeping the original around
>   cp protocols protocols.edited
> 
>   # Edit the subcollection
>   #  - right click opens useful context menus pretty much anywhere
>   #  - remember to save: there's no autosave like in debtags-edit
>   #  - Edit/Undo works
>   tagcolledit protocols.edited
> 
>   # Create a patch.
>   tagcoll diff protocols protocols.edited > patch
> 
>   # Submit the patch.  This cannot be submitted using "debtags submit"
>   # as debtags will mangle the unfaceted tags.
>   (echo "-- DEBTAGS DIFF V0.1 --"; cat patch) > attachment
>   echo "" | mutt -a attachment -s "Tag patch" debtags-submit at vitavonni.de
>   
Hi,

I've put that on my todo list, right after the protocol stuff and the wiki page.

best regards

Torsten

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