Hello Felix, Thanks to you and others for working on this. On Wed 20 Nov 2019 at 09:55AM -08, Felix Lechner wrote: > For example, the tag > 'debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding' might become > 'national-encoding@debian/copyright'. > > [...] > > The change is technically easy. (Lintian even has a way to track > renamed tags for overrides.) On an optical level, however, the change > will affect a lot of people. It could even cause headaches for some > users, for example in derivatives. We would like to solicit your > input. I hope that the change to the tag names could be done in such a way that the tag names do not become less descriptive. Right now it is nice to be able to read a tag name, and often know what it means, without having to look at the long text for the tag. I hope that can remain true. For example, I would request obsolete-national-encoding@debian/copyright rather than national-encoding@debian/copyright. -- Sean Whitton
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