Re: non-US/main or non-US???

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:01:15PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote:

> >>>>> "Matt" == Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
>     Matt> non-US/contrib.
> 
> In which case why is non-US/main incorrect?

For the same reason why main/net is incorrect, and just 'net' is correct.  The
main component is divided into sections (admin, devel, net, etc.).  The contrib
and non-free components are also divided into similar sections.

The non-US archive is more like the main archive than contrib or non-free.  It
has its own 'contrib' and 'non-free' components.  There aren't enough packages
in non-US for it to be worth dividing them into sections (at least, that's why
I assume it isn't done), and they will hopefully move into the main archive
soon and be categorized there.

The hierarchy looks something like this:

+-International archive
| +-main
| | +-admin
| | +-devel
| | +-...
| |
| +-contrib
| | +-admin
| | +-devel
| | +-...
| |
| +-non-free
| | +-admin
| | +-devel
| | +-...
|
+ non-US archive
  +-main
  +-contrib
  +-non-free

The main, international archive could be considered to be the default, unnamed
archive ('').  Packages are simply filed under a particular section.  Packages
in the contrib and non-free components have that name appended
(contrib/section, non-free/section).

The non-US archive works the same way.  Just 'non-US' refers to main, and
non-US/<component> refers to one of the other components (contrib or non-free).

mizar:[/space/pie/cvs/debian] grep-available -nsSection . | sort | uniq 
admin
base
comm
contrib/admin
contrib/devel
contrib/doc
contrib/games
contrib/graphics
contrib/interpreters
contrib/libs
contrib/mail
contrib/math
contrib/misc
contrib/net
contrib/news
contrib/otherosfs
contrib/sound
contrib/tex
contrib/text
contrib/utils
contrib/web
contrib/x11
devel
doc
editors
electronics
games
graphics
hamradio
interpreters
libs
mail
math
misc
net
news
non-US
non-US/non-free
non-free/admin
non-free/comm
non-free/devel
non-free/doc
non-free/editors
non-free/electronics
non-free/games
non-free/graphics
non-free/hamradio
non-free/interpreters
non-free/libs
non-free/mail
non-free/math
non-free/misc
non-free/net
non-free/news
non-free/oldlibs
non-free/otherosfs
non-free/sound
non-free/tex
non-free/text
non-free/utils
non-free/web
non-free/x11
oldlibs
otherosfs
science
shells
sound
tex
text
utils
web
x11

-- 
 - mdz