Re: ITP: links

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 10:11:25PM +0300, Ari Makela <hauva@iki.fi> was heard to say:
> Gopal Narayanan writes:
> 
> > http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/links.html
> > 
> > for woody. 
> > and
> > 
> > http://www.debian.org/Packages/frozen/net/links.html
> > 
> > for potato.
> 
> Yes, there it is. But why it's in network category? Debian does have
> web category. In <URL: http://debian/Packages/unstable/ > it is written:
> 
> <clip>
> Web Software
> Software to run a WWW server, WWW clients, proxies, etc... 
> </clip>
> 
> Unfortunately this is not the only inconsistency. 

  Really, the problem is that our classification system is tied to the
FTP archive structure and is horribly insufficient for 3000+ packages.  It
ought to be in the (non-existant) net/web/clients, or even
net/web/clients/text..

  Daniel

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