Re: About sections contents

[Kirk Hilliard <kirk@ghoti.com>]

Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> writes:
> What I feel is missing is official guidelines for was belongs to what
> section.

I would love to see this documented.  

For instance, the make-doc package (documentation for make, not a
package for making documentation) is in section doc even though the
make package itself is in section devel, but over three quarters of
the other *-doc packages are in the same section as the package they
document.  The reasoning behind this should be documented in either
the packaging manual or policy manual so that new maintainers can
choose the appropriate section for new *-doc packages.

All the policy manual currently says about this is in section 2.1.7.

  Please check the current Debian distribution to see which sections
  are available.

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Kirk Hilliard                                Choose a loose moose.