Bug#974641: lintian: classification tag for test suite

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Lucas,

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 3:46 AM Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> wrote:
>
> (In that specific case, I agree that it's probably easy enough, and I
> can live with that... But I wonder a bit about the general policy here,
> and where you draw the line between what you should go into specific
> tags, and what should be done via parsing trimmed-field -- one could
> argue that the 'vcs' and 'vcs-uri' could be removed in favor of
> trimmed-field as well.)

The trend you see here (no pun intended) is a reaction to the logic of
Debian Janitor, which—like trends.d.o—strives to analyze all kinds of
things about packages. To control the explosion of classification
tags, we settled on a few well-defined but also vastly more powerful
tags, like trimmed-field. I am a little bit saddened by your
skepticism because I hoped that you, too, would view it as a chance to
broaden your offerings on trends.d.o.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner