Since DebConf5 (I envy all those who made it there), Debtags information is now included in the Packages files. This is great for testing out debtags integration, making things a lot easier. ;-)

We are now planning to move the web frontend and database, currently residing on a machine I administrate - hosting debian.vitavonni.de - to alioth.

This is great for multiple reasons: first of all, that machine is rather slow, will probably go offline end of the year and on Alioth, others can better work on the database and web interface, too.

Also this marks the progress of including this into the normal Debian infrastructure. I hope with the release of etch we'll have a package choosing mechanism superior of all others. ;-)

Thanks especially to Enrico and Thaddeus, who have spend way more time and work on Debtags this year alone than I have since the project was started...

We're still in the process of finding the optimal vocabulary, which prove a lot more difficult than expected. You can follow this process in our SVN repository.

P.S. No, this doesn't yet mean you can add "Tags:" to your debian/control files. I think the archive tools will reject that. Please use the debtags-edit tool or tagcolledit to submit them by mail, or use the Web package browser.