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Re: Debian Documentation: Debian Dictionary



In article <[🔎] 19981115135857.N28492@kitenet.net>, Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
>> I had always assummed a debian dictionary would just have words
>> like those you gave and also "upstream", "DFSG", etc, that are
>> specific to debian. It may end up being short, but that's ok.

> And here are some more:

> debian-only (ie, a debian-only package) epoch NMU orphan{,ed,ing}
> distribution (ie, main, non-free, etc) main non-free non-us contrib
> WNPP master rex bo hamm slink potato sid base stable unstable frozen
> experimental BTS maintonly

Oliver, you getting all this?

Don't forget:

pristine source
archive ( == Debian archive)
distribution (qua debian distribution proper, i.e., slink/main)
section, subsection (see the Developer's Reference for these and other
  archive specific terms)

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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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