On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 07:41:40PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes: > > I'd say: > > > > The Debian Social Contract simply refers to "areas". > > > > ... to emphasise the fact (as it seems to me) that the SC is > > non-specific. > > > > I don't think we should feel tied to the SC's vague choice of words. I > > strongly suspect that (a) the authors were more interested in getting > > across the principle than in clear nomenclature, and (b) the specific > > term "components" in our archive maintenance software postdates the SC. > > Since this is technical policy, it seems reasonable to me that we would > > generally prefer more specific terms. > > Here's an updated patch that includes this change and some other > rewordings and which changes "distribution area" to "archive area," which > I think is more accurate and less ambiguous (no confusion with the "Debian > GNU/Linux distribution," for example). How does this look? I think this is fine except that you missed a couple of bits: > <list compact="compact"> > <item> > <em>section</em> if the package is in the > - <em>main</em> category, > + <em>main</em> distribution area, - <em>main</em> category, + <em>main</em> archive area, > </item> > <item> > - <em>segment/section</em> if the package is in > + <em>area/section</em> if the package is in > the <em>contrib</em> or <em>non-free</em> > distribution areas. - distribution areas. + archive areas. Seconded with those modifications. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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