Re: non-US reorganization (was Re: Bug#11333: dependency problem in ssh?)
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> The non-US section should be splitted as has been done with contrib and
> non-free. There should be debian-non-US/bo and debian-non-US/hamm
> hierarchies. As it is now, non-US is the ugly sister of the "US" sections
> It even doesn't have an "overrides" file! (no Priority, no Section)
I seem to be kicking off lots of discussion threads on project admin
issues. It's not my intention to cause contention, or to divert focus
from more productive areas. However, risking that, I'll make another
comment/suggestion here...
As I understand the above, and from what I can see on the US site,
we'd have:
contrib/bo,hamm/binary,binary-all,msdos,source,..
non-free/bo,hamm/binary,binary-all,msdos,source,..
non-us/bo,hamm/binary,binary-all,msdos,source,..
That's consistent with what we have in bo:
bo/binary,binary-all,msdos,source,..
but it spreads bo release-level packages around quite a bit.
It's not consistent with what we have in hamm:
hamm/contrib,non-free,main->hamm,hamm, etc.
(with contrib and non-free structured like main)
Personally, I think the structure now in hamm, with everything
for the hamm release-level placed below the hamm directory tree,
makes more sense than having bits and pieces at the hamm release
level fragmented into the hamm, contrib, non-free, (and non-us)
trees. Also, it seems to make sense to have the package files in the
(hamm/) contrib,non-free,non-us trees organized the same as in the main
tree: with separate source,binary trees and categorization into sections
(util,text,misc,x11,...), just like the main tree.
It also seems to me as if it'd make sense for the non-us site
to use the same the structure as the US site.
Finally, I have a couple of dumb questions. If someone would
answer by email (to avoid noising up the list) I'd appreciate
it. From where should non-us packages be downloaded? Where is
the pgp-US package located? I guess I must have missed something
obvious here.
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