Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hello,
I have fixed all serious or trivial bugs in debtags-edit and then orphaned it. The web editor is much better than debtags-edit in almost every respect, except it cannot be used offline; however, I myself do not use debtags-edit, and I do not enjoy maintaining it that much. GTK-- is not that fun to use (at least, for me); compiling takes ages, and I am not sure about a python rewrite because there are a few performance-critical bits in the code. Or maybe a python rewrite could be made that is based on apt-xapian-index for speed, but then changes in the tagging are not reflected in real time in the interface unless the index is rebuilt, or unless debtags-edit is run as root. Both of which are not ideal. Anyway, dealing with all of this would be so low in my TODO list that it's not reasonably going to happen in at least a couple of years, so it's sensible to orphan debtags-edit so that anyone interested in an GUI offline tagging interface can pick it up if they wish. Ciao, Enrico _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel
