On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 04:20:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 03:41:34PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > > I read through the policy document today, trying to nitpick and find > > > things > > > that have changed in current practice. Here's what I found: > > > > > > * The policy manual uses the term "section" to refer to main, non-us, > > > non-free, and contrib. This overloads the term since we typically call > > > games, libs, docs, etc, sections. Instead, it calls those things > > > subsections. It also uses the term inconsitently: > > [...] > > > I think this deserves to be cleaned up, but I don't really know what to > > > call main, contrib, and non-free. Distributions, maybe? > > > > We'll, since we are adamant that the Debian distribution consists > > officially only of "main", this might be a bad idea. > > > > "Category", maybe? > > Well, that was my point. Main _is_ a distribution, it is the debian > distribution. So I thought non-free and contrib could be called > distributions as well, with the understanding that they are the non-free and > contrib distributions, not the debian distribution.
Hey ! Every distro have its name (slink, potato, woody). Please use another term. > But "area" seems fairly neutral, and is the word used by the social contract, > so I think I prefer that.
