OK, establishing that we are not going to get rid of the sections in the near future, what are people's thoughts on enhancing the definition of them slightly?
At present, the archive maintainers are responsible for defining them and the list is kept in the policy document (2.4). Note that this list is only their names. <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/> includes english text descriptions of the sections. * would it make sense for the english language description to be included in policy too? They can help to clarify exactly what the section is for. * Could an archive maintainer please clarify for me please the purpose of the 'games' category. Specifically, is it appropriate to include packages which are not themselves games, but are very closely related or used near-exclusively for game playing? I'm thinking of thing like game editors (deutex, glbsp, yadex before it disappeared, level editors in general), game-data-packager, and emulators for games hardware (zsnes, snes9x, etc.) If not, where should the emulators in particular go? (Note that I draw a distinction between an emulator for games hardware like snes9x where 99.9% of its use will be for game playing, and a general purpose emulator such as qemu) -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
