On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 17:47, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:30:54PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > > 2) Do you forsee tags being maintained outside of the packages in the > > future? For developing the tag system this makes sense, but it seems to > > me that maintainers should have more direct control over this somehow. > > I think that the same model used for section and priority is most sensible. > Maintainers can include this information in their packages, but it can be > added or overridden by a central authority. That way, this information can > be added to most packages much more quickly and efficiently than filing > bugs, and a notification can be sent to the maintainer when they upload a > package for which the tags are overridden.
I agree. It just goes along with Debian's model where the maintainer controls almost everything related to their package, which I think is generally a good one.
