On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 08:16:34PM -0300, Eriberto Mota wrote: > Hi Bruno, > > 2014-09-21 7:35 GMT-03:00 Bruno Nova <brunomb.nova@gmail.com>: > >> Hmm, this is an interesting point. The "education" section was added by > >> the FTP Masters back in 2012, and grep-dctrl -FSection education seems > >> to show me at least 128 binary packages matching that (e.g. gcompris, > >> kanadic, scratch, etc). See the list of sections in Debian Policy 2.4; > >> it seems that the webpage needs to be updated. > > > > I also thought 'education' was a valid section: lintian doesn't complain, > > Synaptic shows a "friendly" name translated to my language for that section, > > vim doesn't mark it in red, and Ubuntu has some packages in that section. > > And the Debian Policy mentions that section indeed. > > Should I leave it in 'education', or should I change it? Maybe to 'java', or > > 'electronics' which is also a good choice. It's probably better to change. > > > Ok. I will let you decide. However, see the cons: > > - Your package won't be showed in unstable list[1]. > - If your package is rejected, maybe we won't have time to reupload > before the Jessie freezy. > > [1] https://packages.debian.org/unstable > > I think that more important that the section is the word 'education' > in long description. I don't think that the package will be rejected; here's the commit that added the "education" section to the Debian Policy: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=c316cdbc5878da6eed332d5e07043bef3dd6a138 It contains a reference to an e-mail from Joerg Jaspert (on behalf of the FTP Masters team) that notes that the "education" section has been added to the Debian archive: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/12/msg00051.html So it seems to me that it is a valid section, it seems that the website is lagging behind a bit. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org p.penchev@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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