On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:43:11PM +0000, Justin B Rye wrote: > I'm treating this as a token bug against debtags since there isn't a > debtags-vocabulary pseudopackage to report bugs against, and my > posts to the mailinglist have had no effect. > > - The :data: in made-of::data:* is vestigial. > All of these tags should be directly under made-of::.
I've fixed this today. This now requires the upload of a new version of the 'debtags' package with an updated vocabulary, which I'll do in a couple of days. > - culture:: is misnamed and misorganised. > Three and a half years since I first complained about it and > there's _still_ no way to tag British English dictionaries, > etcetera. We already have a clearly defined ISO-standard > namespace for this; it's called locales. I've added culture::british, and I'm puzzled as of why I didn't do it before. I'm very sorry about it. I know that the culture::* facet is just wrong, but locales don't work like tags (i.e. if I search "it", I'd expect it to match it_IT, which won't happend with tags), so I'm reluctant to use them. Ideally, we should have a proper Locale: field in the package information, and after that we should remove the culture::* tag for good. However, I regret I do not have the time to lead the proposal of introducing a Locale: package field, although I'd surely endorse it if someone else wants to champion it. Until that happens, I'm afraid I cannot think of a better compromise than the culture facet. > - filetransfer:: is an entire superfluous facet. > It all belongs under protocol::. Indeed, and I now noticed that some time ago we even created the corresponding protocol::* tags, so now I just need to rename the filetransfer::* tags to protocol::* and get rid of filetransfer::*. Done! > - Many tags are redundantly available under different facets. > This makes consistent tagging harder, which makes searching > harder. These should probably be seen on a case-by-case basis, as sometimes I can't see a way to get rid of the redundancy without compromising some substantial use case: for example, we've just had a similar discussion about the role::devel-lib / devel::library redundanci (see [1], towards the end). [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debtags-devel/2009-January/001915.html Note: I have not forgotten your "griping omnibus" message of some time ago. I'm now wondering if I should close this bug and turn that message into other bug reports, or if we should continue to keep this bug open until all the issues you raise/raised are satisfied. I'll leave the decision up to you. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enr...@debian.org>
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