On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:43:40 +0100 Benjamin Mesing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > here is an idea I came up with, when thinking about the discussion of > different tag sets for different releases (thanks Justin for bringing it > up!). > > The idea is somewhat borrowed from versioned bugs. If a tag is added to > a package, the tag is submitted together with the version information > for the package. This is something you already get for free with tags declared in the control file. > Tag submission from a standalone application (like debtags edit) could > be easily enriched with version information, taken from the currently > installed version of the package. If the package is not installed, the > information about the version that would be installed is added. > > For online submissions things are a little bit more complicated. The > best way would probably be, to let the user select the release he is > tagging (stable, testing, unstable). The version information would be > resolved at the server side. I would go for the "let the user select the release he is tagging" also in debtags-edit. > Finally the maintainer could do the tagging using two fields in the > control file. One for defining diffs, and one for totally redefining the > whole tag-set. > Tags-Diff: +tag1, +tag2, -tag3 > and > Tag-Set: tag1, tag2, tag3, tag4, tag5 Why the need to have two different fields? Wouldn't be a single Tags: field be enough? > Though the whole thing might offer some challenges, I believe it would > be worth the effort. Of course it would :) -- KiyuKo <eof AT kiyuko DOT org> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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