Hi. As my complete work on Debian was interrupted for several months this year so was my work on incorporation debtags into packages.debian.org. I've begun to pick this up again now (The current status can always be tested at http://packages.debian.net/, the index page is non-functional though, so you might want to start at p.d.n/<pkg> or p.d.n/<suite>/). While working on this a couple of questions arised:
1) I currently use http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tags/vocabulary.gz to assign names and descriptions to tags. Is this the canonical method to do that or is there a better way? 1a) What is the difference between vocabulary.gz and vocabularu.gz? 2) I would like to try to offer something like "debtags related" on the packages sites. Doing this on the fly is way too slow though. Would it perhaps make sense to create a central database with this kind of information? 3) I find the smart search interesting as a concept, but I quite frankly don't understand most of the time what it does and why. E.g.: 3.1) What exactly does "Wanted" and "Available" mean for the tags? Or better: How are the initial "Wanted" tags computed? 3.2) What does the initial keyword search search for exactly? E.g. why doesn't find "gcc" the libgccX packages, or why does "apache" find only apache modules but not apache itself? 3.3) The page really should have a "Reset" button to be able to search above all packages again. One can do this by a "hard" reload, too, but it's not exactly intuitive... 3.4) Bug: Broadening the search by removing tags again doesn't seem work at all Keep up the good work :) Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/
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