Vincent Fourmond dijo [Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:34:29AM +0200]: > Hello dear debian Ruby developpers ! > > If you are interested in having a ruby section (after all, we make > up nearly half of the interpreter section) and if you didn't do it > yet, please second the proposal for the creation of a ruby section > (bug > #419261). You'll need to send a signed mail, of course.
Humh... I am not sure - I think the sections structure is not too
useful anyway. I'd rather _join_ back several sections (i.e. Perl,
Python, interpreters) into the one most of them really belong to
(libs/devel/libdevel). When you install a package (as a user), it's
not important to you which language it's written in - And as a
programmer, you will very likely look at the name, which contains that
information. Besides, that's what Debtags is for. The 'sections'
mechanism is IMHO way too limited to be of any real use with such a
big set of packages as we have. Just to illustrate my point:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$ grep -ri ^Section
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.mx.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages
| sort | uniq -c
1012 Section: web
1029 Section: doc
113 Section: otherosfs
11 Section: embedded
120 Section: comm
1228 Section: perl
1348 Section: net
1660 Section: devel
1989 Section: libdevel
216 Section: science
247 Section: tex
2496 Section: libs
294 Section: editors
29 Section: shells
305 Section: math
36 Section: news
395 Section: graphics
397 Section: kde
400 Section: gnome
434 Section: interpreters
511 Section: python
514 Section: mail
517 Section: misc
597 Section: sound
63 Section: oldlibs
672 Section: text
75 Section: electronics
862 Section: games
874 Section: admin
90 Section: hamradio
969 Section: utils
978 Section: x11
First of all: Groups with 11 packages, groups with over 2000. Does
that seem comparable? Some groups (i.e. tex) are well defined, but
there is a lot of potential overlap with very subtle distinctions
(i.e. devel/libdevel/libs, perl/net/admin/utils,
perl/python/interpreters, x11/kde/gnome, etc.)
See you at the Debtags talk at Debconf then ;-) Debtags is already
part of the shown package information - I can only hope it gains
strength (and developer mindshare). I don't think adding a new section
will be of any use.
Greetings,
[ Cc:ing this to debian-devel, as I think that if any discussion
happens regarding this bug, it needs to be project-wide. FWIW, this
proposal has 4 seconds already. ]
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