Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 08:32:50PM -0300, Nicolas Alvarez a écrit : >> Thibaut Paumard wrote: >> > All of this is currently in the "math" section and has been there for >> > about 10 years. I wonder whether all of this should move to the >> > "science" or "interpreters" section. It is better if all these >> > packages stay together, whatever the section. >> > >> > I also wonder how to proceed: is the best way to simply send an e-mail >> > to FTP masters? >> >> I believe the section is part of the package, so you'd have to release a >> new version of the packages with modified control headers > > Dear Nicolas, > > the Section and Priority fields of Debian source packages are not > authoritative. Their values for the binary packages are overriden when > they are added to the Debian archive. If there is a mismatch, one gets an > automated e-mail with instructions on how to submit a bug to > ftp.debian.org in order to ask our archive administrators to amend the > central information. But this change can actually be done without > uploading. > > You can find a little bit more information in the Debian wiki: > http://wiki.debian.org/FtpMaster/Override
Thanks, that's quite interesting. (Hmm I have a feeling I'm learning more from making incorrect statements and getting corrected, than from asking questions. Maybe that's one of the meanings of "learn from your mistakes"?) -- Nicolas (I read mailing lists through Gmane. Please don't Cc me on replies; it makes me get one message on my newsreader and another on email.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
