Hello world, As Lenny is finally released, and we are early in the cycle for squeeze, now is the best time to do some long-needed changes to our archive. Much of what we are currently doing is not visible to you as a user of this archive, but the action we talk about now is:
We plan on changing the current sections in the archive. With the rapid
growth of archive, many of them have become too big to be useful anymore.
While we acknowledge that something like debtags will make a better
long-term solution, we do not think that it is ready yet to completly
replace sections (e.g. because it isn't assured that all packages have
tags). This is why we chose to go ahead and adjust what we have,
instead of hoping that debtags can mature enough in time for squeeze.
We plan on finally removing the already deprecated section base.
Earlier in Debian's lifetime our installer used the base section to
mark packages important for the base system. This is no longer needed,
debian-installer has much better ways to do the same thing, hence it
can go away.
We also plan on adding a number of new sections. At the bottom of this
mail we provide a listing of which packages will initially be put into
those new sections. If you think one of your packages should be put
into one of the new sections but it won't be seen by the matches we
list, please tell override-cha...@debian.org, and it will be moved.
NOTE:
This is not yet done, but will be done soon. We will send a mail to
d-d-a when we made the changes.
There is NO upload required to move a package to a new section.
DO NOT UPLOAD YOUR PACKAGE FOR A SECTION CHANGE ONLY.
It is enough if you change your debian/control file in the next regular
upload, after we announced the new sections exist.
The new sections are:
ruby Everything about ruby, an interpreted object oriented
language.
java Everything about Java
video Video viewers, editors, recording, streaming
fonts Font packages
gnustep The Gnustep environment
xfce The XFCE Desktop, fast and lightweight Desktop
Environment.
httpd Webservers and their modules
localisations Language packs
debug Debug packages
lisp Everything about Lisp
vcs Version control systems
haskell Everything about haskell
zope Zope/Plone Framework
database Databases
kernel Kernel and Kernel modules
The initial set of packages moved into the new sections will be found
using the following matches:
ruby
ruby-*
*-ruby
lib*-ruby1.[89]
irb*
jruby*
racc
rake
rant
rbbr
rcov
*eruby*
rails
rubilicious
soap4r
redcloth
rubyfilter
rubyluabridge
java
java*
sun-java*
*-java
openjdk-*
kaffe*
cacao*
jikes*
default-jdk*
ecj*
fastjar
gcj*
libgcj*
gij*
ikvm
jclassinfo
jflex
jlex
jlint
junit*
nice
maven*
ant
ant-*
tomcat*
jetty*
video
aatv
aview
avifile-*
cfourcc
dov4l
dvb*
dvd*
dvgrab
dvr
elisa*
fbtv
flvtool*
*ffmpeg*
freevo
*-mediaplayer
*mplayer*
*xine*
gnash*
gqcam
hasciicam
kino
ktoon
klash
kvdr
libdv-bin
me-tv
mkvtoolnix*
motion
ogle*
openmovieeditor
pia
pyvnc2swf
recordmydesktop
scantv
smpeg*
streamer
swfdec*
swfmill
thoggen
tvtime
v4l*
vamps
vdr*
vlc*
wmtv
xawtv*
fonts
ttf*
cmap*
xfonts*
font*
cm-*
culmus*
dvi2ps-fontdata-*
gsfonts*
*-font
*-fonts
roxen-fonts-*
t1-*
unifont
ming-fonts-*
gnustep
gnustep*
libgnustep*
*.app
*.framework
xfce
xfce*
libxfce*
httpd
apache*
libapache*
caudium*
roxen*
cherokee*
libcherokee*
*httpd
aolserver*
lighthttp*
mongrel*
nginx
localisations (not meant for packages like doc-debian-* but for language
packs!)
*l10n*
*i18n*
debug
*-dbg
*-debug
lisp (no, not in brackets)
cl-*
*-lisp
*-el
vcs
git-*
gitweb
gitk
gitosis
gitpkg
tig
stgit*
topgit
qgit
subversion
libsvn*
*-svn
svn-*
svk
esvn
kdesvn
websvn
svnmailer
bzr*
*-bzr
hg-*
hgsvn
rapidsvn
subcommander
mercurial*
cvs*
gcvs
statcvs
tkcvs
curves
rcs
monotone*
tla*
*darcs*
arch-buildpackage
archzoom
archway
axp
cssc
viewvc*
vcs-tree
mr
commit-tool
qct
patch
patcher
wiggle
*quilt*
dpatch
tailor
haskell
haskell*
libhugs*
ghc*
libghc*
zope
zope*
plone*
database
postgresql*
pg*
sqlite*
mysql*
libmysql*
db4.*
libdb4*
firebird*
sql-*
qdbm*
kernel
linux-image*
linux-headers*
linux-patch*
linux-source-*
linux-support-*
linux-modules-*
linux-tree-*
kernel-package
*modules*2.6*
firmware-*
kernel-patch-*
xen-*
*-modules-source
*-module-source
kfreebsd-source-*
user-mode-linux
linux-wlan-ng*
nvidia-kernel*
fglrx-source
bcm5700-source
madwifi-source
rt2860-source
unicorn-source
acx100-source
em8300-source
rt*-source
acerhk-source
alsa-source
atl2-source
aufs-source
batman-adv-source
btrfs-source
comedi-source
device3dfx-source
drbd*-source
et131x-source
gspca-source
iscsitarget-source
kqemu-source
kvm-source
leds-alix-source
loop-aes-source
lustre-source
lzma-source
mga-vid-source
ndiswrapper-source
omfs-source
qc-usb-source
sfc-source
squashfs-source
tp-smapi-source
virtualbox-ose*-source
vpb-driver-source
zaptel-source
--
bye, Joerg
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