Hi,

> Is it OK with you if I try and fix s/section/area/ to conform with
> Policy (and DFSG) about what {main|contrib|non-free} are (I intend to
> propose to do the same for the developers-reference) ?

As I read source of debian-reference to update it, I found something
from its comment.  Let me share it FYI.  The Debian archive top level
Release file is as follow:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_top_level_release_file_and_authenticity

Origin: Debian
Label: Debian
Suite: unstable
Codename: sid
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:13:58 UTC
Architectures: alpha amd64 arm hppa hurd-i386 i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel
powerpc s390 sparc
Components: main contrib non-free
Description: Debian x.y Unstable - Not Released
MD5Sum:
 e9f11bc50b12af7927d6583de0a3bd06 22788722 main/binary-alpha/Packages
 43524d07f7fa21b10f472c426db66168  6561398 main/binary-alpha/Packages.gz
...

Here archive area which contain corresponding components are oddly
listed as "Component: ...".

 * categories: 
   http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive#s-sections in "Debian 
Policy"

 * areas: 
   http://www.debian.org/social_contract in "Debian Social Contract"
   http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines "The Debian Free Software 
Guidelines" (DFSG)

Osamu




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