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Bug#481152: lintian: Promote the use of "__Choices" in debconf templates files



On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 23:14 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> One thing I wasn't entirely clear on from a quick look at Tags.pm - are
> experimental tags intended to be declared as "Type: experimental" or as
> a "normal" tag with an "Experimental: yes" field? The comments
> describing %tags appear to suggest there might be a difference between a
> tag being experimental and it having a type of "experimental".

A little more digging around (also known as reading the manual :-)
suggests that experimental tags are simply "normal" tags with an extra
flag. That also looks a lot easier to implement.

Adam



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