On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:48:35AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 06:34:36PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > There are two issue with hints: > > 1) Nobody understand the hints code, so it is difficult to maintain. > > Yes, and furthermore, it's been somewhat broken the last few times > I've tried it. I really liked it back when it worked, but I've pretty > much given up on it. I've dug through the code a few times, and been > properly terrified. The sad part is that tree optimization is a > pretty standard part of CS -- it shouldn't be this difficult. If it > were possible to make it work right, I'd be using it again in a flash.
Please try again. Morten Brix Pedersen has fixed the bugs in the BTS about it. Feel free to report new one if needed. *We really need your input* > > 2) There is no list of hints currently, so this is a problem. > > > I don't know how to fix 1). Point 2) can be used by using debtags[1]. > > This will probably solve the translation problem. > > > Opinions ? > > Originally we were going to hold off on forming any sort of policy > about menu hints until we had the system in use for a while, so we > could see what sort of hints people were going to provide. Well, it's > been a while, so maybe we should review the hints we have as a first > step, and go on from there. > > No point in translating hints that we're just going to turn around and > remove. Do you want I provide the lists of hints currently in use ? There is a tarball of all menu entries at people.debian.org/~ballombe/menu Do you object to using debtags instead ? Hints predate me being a DD, so I ignore the old plans about them. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
