Hi Lucas,
[sorry for the late reply, wrote this mail a few days ago, but forgot
to actually send it.]
Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> There's also the question of whether UDD should provide a tag-centric
> view in addition to the current maintainer/package-centric view.
Any lintian.d.o replacement will need that.
The tag-centric views are e.g. the primary purpose of Lintian's
classification tags (plus statistics via SQL, yeah).
Additionally they're commonly used to assess how many of Debian's
packages are affected by an issue, e.g. when deciding to sunset e.g. a
debhelper feature/compat level or a lintian tag itself.
A quick view on one of these pages is way faster than first to have to
figure out the proper SQL statements for that and still gives a good
estimate.
At least I myself look way more often into the tag-centric lintian.d.o
pages than any other lintian.d.o page because it's the easiest way to
lookup or link to a long tag description, e.g. for online
documentation purposes or sending the description to someone by
e-mail.
Hence from my point of view, if UDD can't also provide a tag centric
view for every tag, it can't replace lintian.d.o at some point in the future.
> The counter argument is that it's quite easy to just use SQL if you
> want to find packages affected by a specific tag.
Why is that a counter argument? I would expect that's an argument
_for_ implementing it. :-)
Regards, Axel
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