Re: Package naming rant

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 04/20/2016 07:54 PM, Enrico Zini wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:26:26AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> 
>> Moving forward, what I would like to see is an easy to use shell tool to
>> do what's needed. For example, something like this:
>>
>> debtags -kAC6B43FE -p python-shotgun \
>>   -t implemented-in::python,role::program,suite::openstack,system::cloud
> [...]
>> If I had such a tool available, I'd be tagging all of my packages very
>> shortly. Without it, I feel like I have to write the tool first,
>> otherwise, it will take too long.
> 
> Fresh out of the oven, you can paste a tag patch here:
> https://debtags.debian.org/api/patch
> 
> The format is described here: https://debtags.debian.org/api/

Whaaa! Exactly what was needed. I've added hundreds of tags within a few
minutes, doing a bit of echo / grep / awk on the shell to generate the
patches!

Thanks so much.
Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)