On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:57:42PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > Seems to me there's still a gaping hole in policy though. Is > > > packages.debian.org really supposed to be the definitive arbiter of policy > > > with regards to sections? The grep-available trick is obscure enough to > > > not > > > count. Shouldn't these sections rather be in Policy proper? > > > > Well, none of these are the canonical source, they just read data from it -- > > the override file, see the /indices/override.* files on every mirror. > > Too arbitrary, too inaccessible, too unaccountable. > > How is any developer supposed to know to put a package in the science > section, for instance? Is he expected to scan through every single override > file looking at every single package listed therein until he just happens to > discover one indicating that a science section does in fact exist?
No, you just open dselect and see what sections exist. ;> It's not like the set of sections changes every day, so you have to constantly check if anything's been updated. Other than the addition of "science", I don't think anything changed for several years. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
