Follow-up Comment #14, bug #68207 (group groff): The following is a bug-maintenance discussion rather than anything to do with this bug report, but I'm posting it here since the inciting comment was posted here.
[comment #11 comment #11:]
> I use the tag labels to locate the relevant code in the source tree.
Isn't that effectively a circular reference? The ticket identified a problem
with pdfmom, but when you tagged it with "[gropdf]", you already had to know
(or look up) where in the source tree pdfmom lived in order to add the correct
tag, which (per the above) then tells you where to find pdfmom.
I bring this up because when I open a bug, I'm sometimes unclear whether to
tag something, say, "[troff]" or "[libgroff]"; it sounds now like the correct
tag can't be definitively assigned until a bug is root-caused, at which point
it seems less than useful as a source-tree pointer.
It has seemed to me before that most of these tags are redundant with the
Category anyway, and comment #13 only reinforces that notion.
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