Sounds good to me. Hierarchical tags don't make much sense.

Thanks
-Dominique


On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Charles Plessy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> we have hundred of packages, and making sure that they are all
> comprehensively
> tagged takes time.
>
> As discussed earlier, the Debtags are not a hierarchical structure, that
> is,
> field::biology:bioinformatics is not a child of field::biology.
>
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>
> In that sense, specialised tags are unnecessary complications unless they
> have
> a direct use.  In our case, we have metapackages to guide our users to
> bioinformatics packages.
>
> Since we have a works-with::biological-sequence, I think I will start to go
> ahead and replace field::biology:bioinformatics by
> works-with::biological-sequence.
>
> Similarly, I am not using anymore the biology:: facet, that was created as
> a
> compromise at a moment where I did not understand Debtags well, and
> propose to
> delete them unless somebody uses them.
>
> Is everybody fine with this ?
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> --
> Charles Plessy
> Debian Med packaging team,
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
>
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