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Re: Moving packages to other dirs



Erick Branderhorst writes:
> 
> It is becoming a bit confusing. For example libreadline is in directory
> base, checking with dselect learns that libreadline is still in section
> devel. This is due to the section entry in the control file. 

Actually, there's a file that will override that.  I just haven't gotten to
fixing it yet.  If it was just the one, I'd do it, but there's a few more,
and It'll have to wait until tonight at least.  Likely this weekend.

> Why not make
> the section entry required for uploaded packages and let the section
> entry be the one who mandates where a package is stored. 

Good idea, but still needs an override method.

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