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Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
Dear maintainer
Currently there are at least several areas where (localized) section
descriptions are duplicated [1,2,3]. There are problems with this:
- packages.d.o misses metadata, and aptitude did also until recently;
- wrong or misleading description of sections [4].
Suggest to have new control files either on the main archive or
metadata.f-m.d.o, with contents like:
Section: admin
Description-en: Administration Utilities
Utilities to administer system resources, manage user accounts, etc.
and taking the initial descriptions perhaps from packages.d.o, which are
short and informative.
Regards
Daniel Hartwig
[1] aptitude: using '/section-descriptions' for names and descriptions
[2] synaptic: using gettext for names
[3] <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/>
[4] <http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/8952>
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Hi
today I created two new sections, one for go (#847520) and one for raku
(#816693) (AKA perl6).
And while I was on it, i followed the suggestion from #739934 and
created a file that contains a dump of all sections known to the
archive, together with their short and long descriptions. The initial
value of those descriptions has been taken from the packages.debian.org
code, so should be something well known and used.
That file is in the 822 format, with stanzas with 3 keys each, Section,
Description and Longdesc, like
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Section: tex
Description: TeX
Longdesc: The famous typesetting software and related programs.
Section: text
Description: Text Processing
Longdesc: Utilities to format and print text documents.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
This file is now available from
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/sections.822 and will
automatically be kept in sync with the archive.
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bye, Joerg
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