Debtags

, a tag-based approach to classifying Debian software packages, has taken another big step forwards.

Debtags was included in the relaunch of packages.debian.org, Debians package search and information web server. This means it’s now visible to pretty much any Debian user.

The experimental packages.debian.net also uses Debtags to recommend ‘similar’ packages.

There are some AI/Datamining projects around Debtags that I’m interested in, but I don’t know when I’ll find time to work on them.