Hi, I understand these categorization words are confusing and sometimes used inconsistently in daily conversation. I think I am folowing traditional and more official wording as much as possible.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:52:12PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:44:37PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 05:47:32AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > As has been repeatedly pointed out, Debian reference was getting old. > > > It needed major rewrite. I finally got the initial draft of Debian > > > Reference v2 ready. > > > > > > Please give me your feed back. > > > > In section "Package management" you use 'component' instead of > > 'section' > > ... when you talk about main/contrib/non-free (too much beer) What is wrong with this? I only see this way of use of words as shown below. > See "Social Contract": > > Social Contract with the Free Software Community > > 1. Debian will remain 100% free > > We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if a work is free in > the document entitled The Debian Free Software Guidelines. We promise that the > Debian system and all its components will be free according to these > guidelines. We will support people who create or use both free and non-free > works on Debian. We will never make the system require the use of a non-free > component. Also in apt_preference(5) > the Component: line > names the licensing component associated with the packages in the > directory tree of the Release file. For example, the line > "Component: main" specifies that all the packages in the directory > tree are from the main component, which entails that they are > licensed under terms listed in the Debian Free Software Guidelines. > Specifying this component in the APT preferences file would require > the line: > > Pin: release c=main Also Debian tutorial: 14.3.1 Configuring Apt http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-tutorial/ch-dpkg.html#s-dpkg-apt Also similar description in apt repository howto. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.en.html While for section, it is used for perl and utils: Debian Policy define: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html > 2.4 Sections > > The packages in the categories main, contrib and non-free are grouped further > into sections to simplify handling. > > The category and section for each package should be specified in the > package's Section control record (see Section, Section 5.6.5). However, > the maintainer of the Debian archive may override this selection to > ensure the consistency of the Debian distribution. The Section field > should be of the form: > > * section if the package is in the main category, > * segment/section if the package is in the contrib or non-free > distribution areas. > > The Debian archive maintainers provide the authoritative list of > sections. At present, they are: admin, base, comm, contrib, devel, doc, > editors, electronics, embedded, games, gnome, graphics, hamradio, > interpreters, kde, libs, libdevel, mail, math, misc, net, news, > non-free, oldlibs, otherosfs, perl, python, science, shells, sound, tex, > text, utils, web, x11. Osamu PS: As for flavour, I know some people call it release. But that is confusiong with stable release etc. I describe alternative for flavour as suites. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
