Bug#632930: debtags shows different packages when extending/fine-graining a tag expression.

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> 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.]

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 >> Surprisingly this shows more game then just games::rpg, shouldn't it
 >> be the reverse way?

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 > 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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