Crossing debtags and popcon

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 22:12:44 +0000
Justin B Rye <jbr at edlug.org.uk> wrote:

[snip]
> Remember, from
> the viewpoint of current Etch users, the online databases provide
> gradually improving coverage of the distribution, while the Packages
> file is essentially frozen

This is due to the way tags are managed now: just a small number of persons
are working on tags, and the archive is still not completely tagged.

When the archive coverage will be complete, this won't be a problem anymore:
the tags for the version in testing of a package will be correct and, even if
the version in unstable will have different tags, this would mean only that
some of the functionalities of the package are different, not that the newer
tags are better.

I still think the right way to tag packages is to add the Tags: field in
debian/control, add dpkg support for it, and then provide the mantainers with
good documentation on how to tag a package correctly.

For packages which are still not tagged after this is done, just file a
wishlist bug, providing a patch for the control file.

--
KiyuKo <eof AT kiyuko DOT org>
Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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