Re: Definitions of all sections in the Control file.

[Xuan Ngo <xuanngolist@yahoo.ca>]

Thank you for replying, but I already knew both links mentioned. Besides, my list of examples of sections is a straight copy and paste from the Debian Policy page.
As Osamu Aoki noticed, debian-installer is not in the policy page. Probably, the page was not up-to-date.

Anyways, I would like to know where is the source file/mapping file that the http://packages.debian.org/unstable/ page got generated? Or, is this done manually?

I want to avoid parsing the webpage to get the definitions and the full name of the sections.

thx!
Xuan.
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--- On Tue, 4/13/10, Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:

> From: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Definitions of all sections in the Control file.
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Received: Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 9:32 AM
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 02:18:02PM
> -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > Xuan Ngo <xuanngolist@yahoo.ca>
> writes:
> > 
> > > Where can I find the definitions of all sections
> in the Control file?
> > >
> > > Examples of sections: admin, cli-mono, comm,
> database, devel, debug,
> > > doc, editors, electronics, embedded, fonts,
> games, gnome, graphics,
> > > gnu-r, gnustep, hamradio, haskell, httpd,
> interpreters, java, kde,
> > > kernel, libs, libdevel, lisp, localization, mail,
> math, misc, net, news,
> > > ocaml, oldlibs, otherosfs, perl, php, python,
> ruby, science, shells,
> > > sound, tex, text, utils, vcs, video, web, x11,
> xfce, zope.
> > 
> > Well, the list of all sections is defined in policy:
> > 
> >   http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections
> > 
> > As for descriptions of each of those, you could use:
> > 
> >   http://packages.debian.org/unstable/
> 
> Have you noticed these lists are a bit different.
> 
>  Base Utilities
>     Basic needed utilities of every Debian
> system.
> 
>  debian-installer udeb packages
>     Special packages for building customized
> debian-installer variants.
>     Do not install them on a normal system!
> 
> These are not in policy ... Interesting.
> 
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