Bug#632930: debtags shows different packages when extending/fine-graining a tag expression.
Ivan Shmakov
oneingray at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 03:59:27 UTC 2012
>>>>> Enrico Zini <enrico at enricozini.org> writes:
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 11:42:40AM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
[Dropping debian-devel-games at lists.debian.org from Cc: as
non-relevant.]
[…]
>> Surprisingly this shows more game then just games::rpg, shouldn't it
>> be the reverse way?
[…]
> In theory, I would expect the same as you; however that behaviour is
> not enforced, and game::rpg and game::rpg:rogue, as well as
> game::board, game::board:chess, game::sport, and game::sport:racing,
> are all considered completely different tags.
> I can see two ways of bringging the theory in line with practice:
> 1. adding a hint to the tagging interface to suggest people to add
> game::foo when the game::foo:bar tag is there;
> 2. renaming the data without a hierarchy (i.e. game::rogue,
> game::chess, game::racing)
But why exactly is inferring foo::bar from foo::bar:baz not an
option? Personally, I'd expect the tags database to have the
most specific tag (or tags), with debtags(1) performing such an
inference by itself.
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