Hi, Parke <parke.ne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, debian-www@lists.debian.org, > > I believe the Debian "Packages" web page confuses the terms "Sections" > and "Components". > > The page is here: > https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > > Scroll down to: "Search package directories" > > Note the following select menus: > Distribution: [stable] Section: [any] > > The "Section" menu contains the following options: main, contrib, > non-free, and any. > > main, contrib and non-free are components, not sections. > > This is confusing because in the context of Debian packages, “Section” > has a separate and distinct meaning. > > For reference, see the sources.list man page. > > See also: > https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections > > To correct this problem, consider changing "Section" to "Component" > (or to "Area"?).
According to https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#archive-areas that would be "area". But additionally to that, "area" is used erroneously at https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages for the definition of the distribution (like in "This area contains packages that are ..." when talking about Testing). Holger -- ============================================================ Created with Sylpheed 3.5.1 under D E B I A N L I N U X 9 " S T R E T C H " . Registered Linux User #311290 - https://linuxcounter.net/ ============================================================
