[Debtags-devel] use::development
Justin B Rye
jbr at edlug.org.uk
Sat Sep 10 13:20:09 UTC 2005
Enrico Zini wrote:
>> The devel:: facet is already effectively a use::devel: subsystem, so
>> a generic use::development would be somewhat redundant... [...]
> But when one looks inside 'use', the facet does not have a 'developing'
> tag,
There's an argument for shifting all the developer tags down into
use::devel, though that would leave the admins out in the cold.
> while that is indeed one of the main activities people do with
> Debian. I wouldn't mind adding it, for completeness sake. Then maybe
> later on we can decide to graft the devel:: tags inside use::developing.
>
> So, uhm, I'd be in favour of adding use::developing actually.
A general problem with redundant tags is that they provide more
opportunity for things to get out of sync in either of two
directions:
a) The use::devel tag which should automatically accompany devel::*
tags is patchily implemented.
b) Packages which would otherwise have been tagged with a specific
devel:: tag are lazily tagged just as use::devel.
Either way, the result is that packages that should be classified as
similar end up with meaningless differences.
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JBR
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