Re: setting section for a non-US package
Cc: -policy, as we need to think about correcting either policy or the
archive.
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 05:05:29PM +0100, Jordi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know this has been discused already, but I don't find it in the
> list-archive.
>
> Now that Woody is born, I was thinking of ITPing bladeenc for unstable. Some
> of you pointed I should toss it into non-US, so here I go, but I don't know
> how to set the appropiate section in debian/control. According to lintian,
> non-us, non-us/sound or similar are not valid.
>
> The only place where I see a reference to this in the policy is:
> 2.1.7 Subsections
>
> The packages in all the sections (main, contrib, non-US/main,
> non-free, non-US/contrib, and non-US/non-free) are grouped further
> into subsections to simplify handling.
> I can set the section to non-US/main, but that doesn't make a lot of sense
> to me, I need to say it's 'sound' somewhere.
According to practice, it seems that non-US (note the capitals) is the
correct section. There are no subsections in non-US at present, so
the policy is not in agreement with practice.
Julian
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