Re: Missing or incorrect section in packages
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 08:52:55AM +0800, Chuan-kai Lin wrote:
> > Policy is actually fairly clear about it in secrion 2.1.7:
> > The section and subsection for each package should be specified in
> > the package's `Section' control record. However, the maintainer of
> > the Debian archive may override this selection to ensure the
> > consistency of the Debian distribution.
>
> In that case we should better fix Policy appendix D.2.9, which said
>
> "These fields may appear in binary package control files, ..."
I've committed a s/may/can/ change.
For the record, the language of appendices such as that one is not generally
considered to be suitable for interpretation as the proper parts of the
Policy (i.e. the must|should|may rules may not apply).
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