Re: main, contrib and non-free - category or section?

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 04:22:35PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 31/05/08 at 22:06 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  In Debian Policy, main, contrib and non-free are explained as "categories".
> >  See http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-sections and
> >  http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections
> > 
> >  But Developers Reference, they are called as "Sections"
> >  http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-resources.en.html#s-archive-sections
> 
> ... and in dak, they are called components.

and thus your local copy of "Release" file in
/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_<distribution>_Release
too uses it too.

Thus next version of Debian Refeence uses "component".
http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#debianarchivebasics
http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#authenticityofthepackage

Also it is called "areas" in "Debian Social Contract"

This was discussed here before.

Osamu