On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 07:59:32PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
This is one of the reasons why I find working on debtags for my packages
rather unrewarding. I have no real indication that the decisions I'm
making about what tags make sense have much in common with the decisions
everyone else
Enrico Zini enr...@enricozini.org writes:
What I intend to do is to form subcommittees by broad topics: The Gnome
Guys, The KDE Guys, The Web Developers, The Photographers and so
on. Or People who take care of tag X.
Such groups should have the ultimate say on a set of tags, including
IMO, it would make sense to merge Debian sections into a debtags facet
so that you can have multiple sections when it makes sense. The facet
could still be controlled by ftpmasters if that was desired.
I don't understand why you suggest creating a debtags facet replacing
sections, except if you
Le Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 03:02:23PM -0500, Filipus Klutiero a écrit :
I don't understand why you suggest creating a debtags facet replacing
sections, except if you plan to give exclusive control on it to the
archive maintenance team as opposed to the rest of the tags.
Hi Filipus and all
Le January 8, 2009 05:50:02 pm Charles Plessy, vous avez écrit :
Le Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 03:02:23PM -0500, Filipus Klutiero a écrit :
I don't understand why you suggest creating a debtags facet replacing
sections, except if you plan to give exclusive control on it to the
archive maintenance
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes:
now that the base section has been removed (Policy 3.8.0.0), is it
still necessary to override the management of the Section field instead
of simply trusting the maintainers?
The maintainers are really bad at it? lintian.d.o alas has a ton of
evidence
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 07:09:48PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
The maintainers are really bad at it? lintian.d.o alas has a ton of
evidence of this, even for the very easy cases. Consider:
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/dev-package-should-be-section-libdevel.html
Clint Adams sch...@debian.org writes:
That's not really a fair comparison; libdevel, perl, and python, are
relatively new sections that the ftpmasters added unilaterally, and doc
has been used inconsistently by the ftpteam in the past. There is also
minimal motivation (at least for me) to
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