Bug#536238: O: debtags-edit -- GUI browser and editor for Debian Package Tags

[Enrico Zini]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

Hello,

I have fixed all serious or trivial bugs in debtags-edit and then
orphaned it.

The web editor is much better than debtags-edit in almost every respect,
except it cannot be used offline; however, I myself do not use
debtags-edit, and I do not enjoy maintaining it that much.

GTK-- is not that fun to use (at least, for me); compiling takes ages,
and I am not sure about a python rewrite because there are a few
performance-critical bits in the code.

Or maybe a python rewrite could be made that is based on
apt-xapian-index for speed, but then changes in the tagging are not
reflected in real time in the interface unless the index is rebuilt, or
unless debtags-edit is run as root. Both of which are not ideal.

Anyway, dealing with all of this would be so low in my TODO list that
it's not reasonably going to happen in at least a couple of years, so
it's sensible to orphan debtags-edit so that anyone interested in an GUI
offline tagging interface can pick it up if they wish.


Ciao,

Enrico