Bug#498883: Please add support for overridable tags
"Raphael Geissert" <atomo64@gmail.com> writes:
> 2008/9/14 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>:
>> 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.
It doesn't seem like a good idea to me to use the same tag to mean
multiple things.
>> 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).
When would we not want to just add a new tag? It seems a lot simpler.
> Other than that, I really believe the @information->$extra conversion
> should happen at tag, not at the other sublevels as it is completely
> irrelevant.
I don't understand what this means, and reviewing the bug log didn't help
me. Could you clarify what an "@information->$extra" conversion is?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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