[Bug 1266874] Re: near-empty debtags database

[Quinn Balazs]

Any of the information that used to be located on
http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tags/tags-current.gz has been moved to
the Debian Wiki https://wiki.debian.org/Debtags. Debtags 1.12ubuntu1 in
Trusty contains a tags-current.gz that contains the relevant tags,
removing the need to fetch the tags-current.gz file from
http://debtags.alioth.debian.org which no longer exists. 1.10.2ubuntu1
in Saucy contains no such file, and since
http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tags/tags-current.gz is no longer
accessible there is no easy way to fetch the tags-current.gz file. As it
currently stands Debugs is not functional in Saucy.

** Attachment added: "1.12ubuntu1 tags-current.gz"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debtags/+bug/1266874/+attachment/3942818/+files/tags-current.gz

** Changed in: debtags (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  near-empty debtags database

Status in “debtags” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hello,

  Severity : high. 
  Rationale : nearly no tags, tags database and associated applications, including debtags, are useless.

  Summary : near-empty debtags database. Only 20 packages have tags.

  After installing debtags and packagesearch, it is observed that
  packagesearch finds very few packages by tags.

  How to reproduce :

  * install debtags, use any debtags front-end, see that search by tags finds very few packages
  * run debtags cat | wc -l, expect a big number (thousands)
  * run apt-cache dumpavail | grep -i ^Tag: | wc -l, expect a big number (thousands)
  * run wget -S  http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tags/tags-current.gz, expect a result

  Observed behavior

  * debtags cat | wc -l yields 20
  * apt-cache dumpavail | grep -i ^Tag: | wc -l yields 34
  * wget -S  http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tags/tags-current.gz fails with 404

  Thank you for your attention.

  
  * Additional information

  lsb_release -rd

  Description:	Ubuntu 13.10
  Release:	13.10

  LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy debtags

   1722  LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy debtags

  debtags:
    Installed: 1.10.2ubuntu1
    Candidate: 1.10.2ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 1.10.2ubuntu1 0
          500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: debtags 1.10.2ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Jan  7 19:24:45 2014
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: debtags
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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