On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:43:47PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> > Per-package tags would be useful for some things. The one that
> > triggered this idea is:
> >
> > outdated New version is available
>
> How does this have to be per-package tagging, just have a bug filed against
> each package that is out dated with the outdated tag.
I thought of that. But when one such bug tagged "outdated" has been
reported, it does not make much sense to have a second one - they should be
merged. "outdated" is more a state of the package than a tag that could be
applied to several bugreports.
Although it would be (implementation-wise) easier to implement right now as
a bug-level tag, I don't think it would be right to keep it as such very long.
But well, what's important right now is to have the info available, we can
convert when/if we get a better way of keeping it.
> We could add other tags to describe common bug reports, things like
> missing-man-page or does-not-build-on-hppa. This would make it easier to
> extract from the BTS a list of packages that are missing a man page or do not
> build on hppa.
Yes. missing-man-page would be nice. does-not-build-on-hppa may be too
restrictive, however. Maybe missing-arch instead or such ?
But those are classical bug-level tags. Another idea for a pkg-level tag
would be "orphaned", and other wnpp-related stuff (some would need more
info, like "ita: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"). That would allow to have the wnpp info on
the bugs.d.o page, making it more informative, and the wnpp data would
probably be in a (structurally speaking) better place - and nothing would
prevent a specific cgi that would collate the info we currently get from
bugs.d.o/wnpp. [Note: well, RFPs would not fit in there, obviously. But
you get the idea.]
So no, I don't have a killer application for pkg-level tags yet, but well.
Regards,
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