On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 09:58:16AM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > Of course. they can be overriden the same way the section "gnome" was > overridden for these packages. So no uploads would be required, but the > packages can just be updated with their next uploads. Maybe some will stay > in the override file for a long time even.
Indeed. I see no reason to try to use policy to strongarm maintainers into adding tags, or to create a lot of work to add tags to orphaned packages. > Well, i have the basic tools there, i can do mass changes even matching > on package description or long description. > Basically anything i can SELECT from the DB and process in perl ;) Yes, but unless you want to do all of the tagging yourself, this is not ideal. :-) > I planned to add a "upload" facility, where you can upload a > package: +tag, -tag > style diff file (or what ever diff format enricos tools have) > but i havn't had time to do so yet. > However when you send me such things i will hurry to do these changes. Ah, I will have to look at enrico's tools. > The interface is lacking another big point: it doesn't yet automatically > add "implicit" tags - the tags "below" one tag in the tree structure - > so right now you have to add "devel" as well as "devel::lang::perl" > if you want to have the system work properly. I have not been doing that (nor removing the not-yet-tagged tags) with the presumption that this can be automated en masse at a later time. -- - mdz