Bug#481152: lintian: Promote the use of "__Choices" in debconf templates files
"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> 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.
Yeah, I think that's the way that they should be, since experimental
status is orthogonal to severity or certainty.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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