On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 10:12:11PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > > (N.B.: this check would fail even in the case of a package with a > > pre-existing section override in the archive. What's the sense of > > that? > > Let the maintainer get the nag mail after the fact telling them to > > reconcile > > the section, instead.) > What's the point of having the maintainer specify it in the first place? - it provides a hint to the ftp team about the section it might belong in - it gives us a way to see when the ftp team and the maintainer disagree about the correct section (reminder mails to the maintainer on override mismatch) - it gives users useful information when inspecting the .deb manually - it gives sensible default values for the Packages file when importing into some package archive other than the official Debian archive All are valuable; but none are reasons to reject packages, IMHO. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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