OK, last Thursday I was told that use of section and priority in the control files of packages was deprecated by those whose opinions would seem to matter most---Ian Jackson, dpkg maintainer, and Guy Maor, archive maintainer.
This is fine with me---one less detail to track for each package. What about dchanges, though? Is it going to wreak havoc in the archive if tons of .changes files show up with misc/extra, even when that's not actually where those packages belong? I hope not, because that's exactly what it does given the above set of recommendations. Mike. -- "Don't let me make you unhappy by failing to be contrary enough...."