Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > - it provides a hint to the ftp team about the section it might belong in > - it gives us a way to see when the ftp team and the maintainer disagree > about the correct section (reminder mails to the maintainer on override > mismatch) > - it gives users useful information when inspecting the .deb manually > - it gives sensible default values for the Packages file when importing > into some package archive other than the official Debian archive
> All are valuable; but none are reasons to reject packages, IMHO. If we're going to make the section for source packages optional, I would prefer to just declare the field optional rather than letting the maintainer set it to a bogus value like "unknown." I believe the archive software currently requires a section for the source package, so this would require other software changes. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org