Re: Bug#347229: DevRef: experimental link now broken, and s/distribution/suite/? (Was: Re: Information abount packages.d.o and experimental)

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:27:52AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Also, should s/distribution/suite/?  I forget where this word 'suite'
> is used, somewhere on the website I believe, but can't find it now..

suite is the Debian Archive Kit (katie) terminology, just like
'component' for main, contrib, non-free. This provides less clashes with
other terminology, like "distribution" meaning "Debian", and "section"
(as policy calls the components) is actually used for things like
'devel', 'utils', 'gnome' -- the Section: header in source and binary
packages (policy calls these subsections).

But then, the way to specify a suite in a .changes is by setting the
Distribution: header... It'd be good if there was more unification in
terminology, but lacking that, at least without programs/policy,
terminology should be internally consistent. So for now at least,
distribution in policy, suite in dak.

--Jeroen

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