Re: Missing or incorrect section in packages

[Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr>]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:44:50PM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto 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.
> 
> For what I have seen (read the bug i posted before) the maintainer has a
> compliant pkg that specify Sectiona and Priority in the source but it gets
> ignored. probably i should raise the severity of my bug.. do you think is
> a good idea?

Tell them to read the dpkg-gencontrol manual page, the part about the -isp
option.

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