-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Zini schrieb: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 05:42:50PM +0100, Torsten Marek wrote: > > >>what is happening with the lonely tags (= tags without facets)? >>I just had a look at the new package browser and the tagging interface, and >>they >>were taking up some space. >>Currently, these are (grep "Tag: [0-9a-z\-]*$" debian-packages) >>Tag: educational > > ... > >>Tag: vi >>As it seems, no packages use these tags. Can they be removed? > > > Almost. Here's what is happening: > > - Those tags are still available in Erich's packagebrowser: you can see > them in the tag database at > http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tags/tags-current.gz > - Since the various debtags code assumes tags to have a facet, during > "debtags update" those tags are automatically assigned the facet > "legacy". This is why you don't see any package using those tags. > > What would need to be done would be to rename those tags into their > faceted counterparts. Unfortunately, this is not always easy to do: > > - some of them are too broad: "netcomm, protocols" > - some of them don't have a place in the vocabulary, like "office" > (for office, the idea is that "office" is more like a marketing thing > and categories should be more meaningful, such as editing, drawing > and so on) > > So, what would need to be done would be to check the packages that have > those tags, and try to replace those tags with one of the other faceted > ones, or to remove them when all the information they convey is already > expressed by the other faceted tags. For example, one could remove > 'protocols' when a package already has one of the 'protocol::*' tags. > > To do this work, tagcoll and tagcolledit may come useful. Here is an > exaple: > > # Fetch the unmangled archive > wget http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tags/tags-current.gz > gunzip tags-current.gz > > # Find the 'protocols' tags of packages that don't have a > # corresponding protocol::* > taggrep 'protocols && !protocol::*' tags-current > protocols > > # Make a working copy, keeping the original around > cp protocols protocols.edited > > # Edit the subcollection > # - right click opens useful context menus pretty much anywhere > # - remember to save: there's no autosave like in debtags-edit > # - Edit/Undo works > tagcolledit protocols.edited > > # Create a patch. > tagcoll diff protocols protocols.edited > patch > > # Submit the patch. This cannot be submitted using "debtags submit" > # as debtags will mangle the unfaceted tags. > (echo "-- DEBTAGS DIFF V0.1 --"; cat patch) > attachment > echo "" | mutt -a attachment -s "Tag patch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi,
I've put that on my todo list, right after the protocol stuff and the wiki page. best regards Torsten - -- Torsten Marek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ID: A244C858 -- FP: 1902 0002 5DFC 856B F146 894C 7CC5 451E A244 C858 Keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDe5hifMVFHqJEyFgRAqvhAJkBhlBcbop+svrbclj9EpECecgxkgCfQkjP wm/rWmpKCeAA/fGgqjo9Ryg= =qOKW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel
