Bug#498883: Please add support for overridable tags
2008/9/14 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>:
> Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The attached patch adds support for "overridable" tags. Any value in
>> the .desc files can be overriden if the lowercase name is in its
>> corresponding Overridable field.
>
> I already explained why I think this is a bad idea. I don't think
Actually, what I understood from what you said is that you were not
sure how useful it would be.
> anything's changed, has it?
The idea is to reuse the tag name to for example add experimental
versions of current tags, making them less false negatives prone (but
with the possibility of making them more prone to false positives).
> We could do that, but there are some advantages to having each tag have a
> known severity and certainty that can be discussed in the long
> description... although I guess we could deal with that in other ways.
The above example could also apply to the Certainty field, without
turning a tag into an experimental one.
Other than that, I really believe the @information->$extra conversion
should happen at tag, not at the other sublevels as it is completely
irrelevant.
P.S. sorry for the delay.
>
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> Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>
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