If I do tagging, will it be used?

[Justin B Rye]

Erich Schubert wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>> tags such as role::sw:application are rejected as "unknown".  Are
>> those tags being deprecated?  If so, where are the new tags to
> 
> Tons of tags were renamed I think.
> I didn't follow the discussion on the mailing list here.
> The vocabulary is maintained in subversion,
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debtags/vocabulary/trunk/?rev=0&sc=0
> there is a log available and diffs.

Yes, I can browse my way to declarations that the vocabulary has
been revised; this is as I had surmised.  But while the version in
the archive may have changed, the copy I have access to by way of
"debtags update" still offers only the obsolete tags.

There's plenty of work to do, switching hundreds of packages from
"role::foo:bar" to "role::foo, scope::bar"... but it looks like I
can't help with it.  Even when I construct patches "manually" and
run "debtags submit fake.patch", the relevant tags are all stripped
out as unrecognised, some at the sending end, the rest at the
receiving end.

Is there a way I can force debtags to update its vocabulary?
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JBR
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