Benjamin Mesing wrote: >> I'd love to see support for >> experimental-only packages in the tagger, so that people can tag packages >> there without needing to wait until they hit the wider audience of unstable. > Agreed. > We also need a way to tag packages in the process of packaging. > Otherwise we will never get people to tag packages, the way we want them > to. > Perhaps a field in the Package Control file that lists the tags and is > parsed upon upload would be in order?
A field in the package control file seems somewhat problematic, though. In particular, if a package includes tags in its control file which prove incorrect or deficient, and the debtags mechanism provides more up to date tags, you end up with package with differing tags in its control/diff/source and in the Packages file. To mitigate this, it would help to have some sort of tag disparity messages on upload, similar to the override disparity mails. The relationship between overrides, package control files, and section/priority seems very much like the relationship between the debtags database, a hypothetical extension to package control files, and tags. - Josh Triplett
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