Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:32:01PM +0100, Xan wrote: > Package: base > Severity: wishlist > > > Can you extend the section tag that appears in packages. Extend this > section allows with more comfort to localizate the packages that we want > and selected. > > For example, if we run apt-cache show kmail, we receive: > > Package: kmail > Priority: optional > Section: mail > Installed-Size: 5972 > Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <[email protected]> > Architecture: i386 > Source: kdepim > Version: 4:3.3.1-1 > Replaces: libkdenetwork2 (<< 4:3.2.92) > Provides: imap-client, mail-reader > [...] > > It could be: > [...] > Section: kde/mail/mail-reader > [...] > > or > [...] > Sections: kde mail mail-reader > [...] > > [I prefer the last] > > With these, we could select _all_ packages that really belongs to kde. > For example, if we use synaptic and we follow the current section tag > for install all kde packages, we leave kmail (because its section is > "mail"). And perhaps it could be a trouble... > > Ideally, tags in section field rather than one word was the ideal. > Perhaps it implies tech problems. I don't know. I'm a desktop user. > > Thanks and regards, > Xan. >
That's something more for ftp.debian.org to decide, not for APT (where it was reassigned to). I expect them to close the bug, though. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. Be friendly, do not top-post, and follow RFC 1855 "Netiquette". - If you don't I might ignore you.
