[Debtags-devel] Protocols patch, complete

Hervé Eychenne rv at eychenne.org
Sat Nov 19 23:31:22 UTC 2005


On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 01:57:08PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 10:45:12AM +0100, Torsten Marek wrote:

> > > Tag: protocol::oscar
> > > Description: blah
> > > Tagging-hints:
> > >  Please consider tagging your package with works-with::im:licq
> > >  or works-with::im:aim
> > I think this could be handled via "Implies:", but I have to admit, to my own
> > shame, that I don't know whether this is actually handled by libtagcoll or only
> > a comment in the tagset.
> > In this case, works-with::im:{aim,icq} would imply protocol::oscar.

> Implies is currently totally ignored by libtagcoll.  The reason is that
> I feel that it's better to do all this automatic tag inference in the
> autodebtag script, and to provide clients with a nice and complete tag
> database.

If so, I think this is a design mistake.
Implications in inherent to tagging, so it definitely must be handled
by the tag library.
Programs using libtagcoll should not have to reinvent autodebtag's
wheel.

 Hervé

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