Data section Re: Announcing a Debian wallpaper package.
Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Steve Kemp wrote:
>
> > I'm unclear exactly what you mean by a data section, an
> > arch-independant section within the Debian repository for data-only
> > packages?
> While searching the archive of debian-devel for "data section" in the
> year 2002 I found several entries:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200207/msg01536.html
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200203/msg00847.html
> (Just my first posting which ended in hints to the data section later in
> the thread.)
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200203/msg01113.html
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200203/msg01122.html
>
> Feel free to search for this keywords in the years before and you will find
> a lot of flamewars^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpostings regardings this topic.
It was discussed in 1999, but the bug is tagged "wontfix". I don't know
why.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=38902
Peter
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