Paul Hardy <unifoun...@gmail.com> writes:
> Thank you for dealing with bug #907725 ("xfonts packages are not using
> the x11 section in practice"). I was told that it was up to the FTP
> Masters, so I wrote the below email to them in July. I have not yet
> received a response, but looking at the NEW queue it is obvious how
> swamped they are so I wasn't expecting a rapid response.
Just in case you weren't already aware of this little-known corner of how
the Debian archive works: the section of every package currently in the
archive is set via the overrides maintained by ftp-master, not by the
section specified in the packaging files. This is for somewhat esoteric
and historical reasons, but the package metadata is basically just a hint.
Therefore, even though you didn't get a reply, ftp-master has in a sense
already made their decision clear: the fonts currently in the archive are
in the fonts section. If ftp-master had wanted them in a different
section, that's entirely under their control, and they could have just
made that change.
--
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
