Re: The way to the next dpkg release

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:16:10AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > One of the difficulties that I see with dpkg at the moment is that it has
> > a very large bug list.  Many of those bugs are very old, the use of tags
> > is sometimes different from bug to bug, and the database could probably
> > use either a good set of usertags or some bug title massaging (or possibly
> > both).
> 
> This is not exactly true. Scott did a huge amount fo bug triaging. 
> 
> He had his own ways to do so and I even imagine he documented them. 
> 
> Something may be lying around on www.dpkg.org...otherwise we'll ask
> him whether he has something written.

There's debian/pseudo-tags in the sources, which some bugs report are
using. That could be converted to usertags instead probably. I'm not
sure if Scott was using that previously.

regards,
guillem