#20732 Visibility rules with tags not working with overrides Issue created by isra17 Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Given the following target generator:

# foo/bar/BUILD
python_sources(overrides={"biz.py": dict(tags=["core"])})

and the following visibility rule:

("*", "[//**](core)")

It appears that the visibility rule won't ever match

foo/bar/biz.py

. Adding

tags=["core"]

to the generator fixes it. Diving in Pants source, it seems like the visibility engine is working with

TargetAdaptor

which represent the generator

python_sources

and not the final

python_source

with the override applied. I'm not that familiar with Pants source and it look like the visibility engine is hooking deep in the dependency engine. Is there strong limitation of why it is not handling the generated targets? I suppose it could be hacked around by checking the overrides tags if getting the generated target is not possible. Describe the solution you'd like I think it would be fair to assume that rules are being run against the generated targets and not the generator. Do you have any pointer for this? I could try to work out something. I'm trying to setup something so I can rely heavily on tags to define my dependency rules (Make it so that

core

target can depends on other

core

targets, etc.) pantsbuild/pants