Hi, > I doubt debtags is a good way to locate firmware. :)
It may not be the best way to locate firmware, but debtags is one of the main search interfaces to the user, and I consider it a valid use case to search for firmware e.g. to get your hardware working. I've taken the time to look at how firmware packages are currently tagged and it shows that this is quite heterogenous (many are not tagged at all). This indicates, that something is amiss. Most packages provding "real firmware" agree to have role::data. For firmware downloaders this is different (some have role::program). Additionally some firmeware packages have use::driver and admin::hardware. If I consider "role::firmware" I think this would cause more confusion then having benefit, because firmware-installers would not fall into this category. I have pondered admin::hardware, but from my understanding this means programs aiding with the administration of hardware (derived from the general scope of the admin:: facet). I would also argue, that the current description of the admin::hardware tag as "Hardware Support" is misleading. An alternative would be "use::driver" where I can find no strong arguments against it, except may be that those are generally considered different, depending on where they run. Perhaps the description of "use::driver" should be changed from "hardware driver" to "Hardware enablement" A new tag "hardware::firmware" sounds like a good candidate to me. However, it is a little bit perpendicular to how the hardware:: facet is currently structured. To summarize my opinion: * I would change the description of "use::driver" to "Hardware Enablement" (which matches the hardware:: facet description) and add a long description: "Contains packages providing hardware drivers or firmware" * alternatively, I would vote to add a "hardware::firmware"-tag Best regards Benjamin _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list Debtags-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel