Section editors or lisp?

[Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org>]

I wonder about the following:

: There are disparities between your recently accepted upload and the
: override file for the following file(s):
: 
: debian-el_30.3-1_all.deb: package says section is utils, override says lisp.
: devscripts-el_30.3-1_all.deb: package says section is editors, override says lisp.
: dpkg-dev-el_30.3-1_all.deb: package says section is utils, override says lisp.
: emacs-goodies-el_30.3-1_all.deb: package says section is editors, override says lisp.
: gnus-bonus-el_30.3-1_all.deb: package says section is news, override says lisp.
: vm-bonus-el_30.3-1_all.deb: package says section is mail, override says lisp.

Sure, the packages are written in lisp.  But does the user care what
programming language is used?  The packages are not there to help
program in lisp, they are there for reasons like assisting mail reading,
news reading, editing, etc.

Where does the inclination to classify all Emacs add-ons in section
lisp come from?  Should we?

Thanks,
-- 
Peter