Bug#281400: base: [wish] extend section tag in packages.
Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:32:01PM +0100, Xan wrote:
> Package: base
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> Can you extend the section tag that appears in packages. Extend this
> section allows with more comfort to localizate the packages that we want
> and selected.
>
> For example, if we run apt-cache show kmail, we receive:
>
> Package: kmail
> Priority: optional
> Section: mail
> Installed-Size: 5972
> Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Source: kdepim
> Version: 4:3.3.1-1
> Replaces: libkdenetwork2 (<< 4:3.2.92)
> Provides: imap-client, mail-reader
> [...]
>
> It could be:
> [...]
> Section: kde/mail/mail-reader
> [...]
>
> or
> [...]
> Sections: kde mail mail-reader
> [...]
>
> [I prefer the last]
>
> With these, we could select _all_ packages that really belongs to kde.
> For example, if we use synaptic and we follow the current section tag
> for install all kde packages, we leave kmail (because its section is
> "mail"). And perhaps it could be a trouble...
>
> Ideally, tags in section field rather than one word was the ideal.
> Perhaps it implies tech problems. I don't know. I'm a desktop user.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Xan.
>
That's something more for ftp.debian.org to decide, not for APT
(where it was reassigned to). I expect them to close the bug,
though.
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