Bug#498883: Please add support for overridable tags
"Raphael Geissert" <atomo64@gmail.com> writes:
> 2008/9/21 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>:
>> When would we not want to just add a new tag? It seems a lot simpler.
> In cases where we would have to copy and paste exactly the same tag
> information just to use a different certainty or make it an experimental
> tag.
Given that when there's a different certainty, there's usually some reason
that's worth explaining in the long description, this doesn't strike me as
likely to be very common.
> If you take a look at my proposed patch you will see that it also gets
> rid of this stuff:
>
>> my $extra = '';
>> $extra = " @$information" if @$information;
>> $extra = '' if $extra eq ' ';
>
> There's no point in doing that in methods such as print_tag,
> get_tag_code, and lib/Tags/*.pm
Oh, okay. I think Frank's Lintian::Output patch partly takes care of
that, and I agree that we should clean up whatever's left after that patch
lands.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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