---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ya'aqov Ben Nun <qobiben...@gmail.com> Date: sex, 24 de ago de 2018 03:05 Subject: Re: Debian "Packages" web page confuses the terms "Sections" and "Components" To: Paul Wise <p...@debian.org>
Hi. Just giving my to cents to the subject maybe it's about time to make the whole thing with a unique terminology. Em sex, 24 de ago de 2018 00:04, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> escreveu: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 2:15 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > According to > > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#archive-areas > > that would be "area". > > According to the archive itself, they are components: > > Components: main contrib non-free > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/Release > > I guess for space reasons, the Packages/Sources files combine the > component with the section: > > Section: contrib/misc > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/Sources.gz > > OTOH, the repository format documentation says: > > "Components: A whitespace separated list of areas." > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Format#Components > > > 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). > > I think all our documentation is pretty confused about the terminology > used around repositories. > > I think that "area" is a more understandable word than "component" > when the documentation is end-user oriented and that "component" could > be added (either via mouseover hover text or via text in parentheses) > depending on how new to Debian the audience is expected to be. > > To make it worse, Ubuntu introduced a word "pocket" that isn't used by > Debian folks. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArchiveAdministration > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > >
