Enrico Zini wrote: > Justin B Rye wrote: >> If your /etc/apt/sources.list specifies "etch" and >> your /etc/debtags/sources.list points at the alioth tag-archive, you >> are currently capable of making useful contributions; but after the >> release, you're going to start seeing inapplicable tags (eg: Etch's >> foo-media-player being role::dummy, Lenny/Sid's being role::program >> works-with-format::mp4) and you may even end up misguidedly >> contributing "corrections". Is there any plan to set up separate >> tag (and vocabulary?) archives? > > In fact yes: if you leave your sources.list to the default "tags > apt://", then the tags will be taken from the Packages file, which > should contain tags that have been frozen at the time of the release.
If so, sure, but that wasn't the situation I described. It seemed to me when I dist-upgraded my desktop just a couple of months ago that I was more or less forced to change that default, since there were considerably fewer tags in the Packages file than there had been in my old /var/cache/debtags file. Remember, from the viewpoint of current Etch users, the online databases provide gradually improving coverage of the distribution, while the Packages file is essentially frozen; what is there to warn them that after the release they'll need to give up using alioth? It wouldn't hurt to have a comment somewhere in the docs/configs along the lines of: # If you plan to use Stable, please be aware that online tag # databases are more likely to track Testing/Unstable; so be careful # about downloading tags from them, and please do not contribute # tags back upstream without checking they're still accurate for # current package versions. (It shouldn't be too hard for debtags to be user-friendly about handling this kind of thing for itself; probably all you'd need to do is add some sort of release-number stamp on tag-archives, supplementing the "DEBTAGS DIFF V0.1" header on patch-submissions, and warn of mismatches.) -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel
