"Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 11:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Meike Reichle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> When doing my NM I noticed an inconsistency between the Debian Policy >>> and the Developer's Reference concerning the use of the terms "section" >>> and "category". > [...] >> The control field for specifying admin, net, utils, etc. is "Section", so >> I think Policy wins here and main, contrib, and non-free should be called >> categories. > For what it's worth, and possibly to add more confusion, dak uses the > term "component" in this case. Also, I guess my first reaction isn't as conclusive as I'd like, since Section, the control field, is actually used for both. I sort of like component better than category. I wonder if we should change both documents. Although I think Policy is fairly uniform and consistent on using category, and other software, like Lintian, follows the current terminology of Policy. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
