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Re: [SUMMARY] About terminology for stable/testing/unstable and related issues



On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:26:19AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Suite has already been used informally.  For completeness, you should
> also mention "section" (main, contrib, non-free) in your more official
> writeup.  You can sidestep the question whether sections besides main
> are part of versions, releases or distributions. 8-)

The word "section" already has an assigned meaning in Debian; each
package has its assigned section defined in its control file,
i.e. admin, editors, games, libs, mail, etc.
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