Dear Sirs, If it is possible, could you place an explanatory-file, similar to the attached one, somewhere in http://ftp.debian.org/pool/ to help the persons like me to differentiate packages and to better understand what they are for.
Regards, Cyril, Esq.
-dbg in .deb file-names means "debugging libraries". -dev in .deb file-names means "development environment". Those, above, only useful for developers wishing to compile programs with use the package. -bf in .deb file-names means "intended to be used on boot floppies". There is the boot-floppies, the potato and woody's installer, somewhere. (?http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200311/msg00838.html). ??? (Below are taken from: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/FAQ/ch-compat.en.html#s-arches) i386: this covers PCs based on Intel and compatible processors, including Intel's 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II (both Klamath and Celeron), and Pentium III, and most compatible processors by AMD, Cyrix and others. m68k: this covers Amigas and ATARIs having a Motorola 680x0 processor for x>=2; with MMU. alpha: Compaq/Digital's Alpha systems. sparc: this covers Sun's SPARC and most UltraSPARC systems. powerpc: this covers some IBM/Motorola PowerPC machines, including CHRP, PowerMac and PReP machines. arm: ARM and StrongARM machines. mips: SGI's big-endian MIPS systems, Indy and Indigo2; mipsel: little-endian MIPS machines, Digital DECstations. hppa: Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC machines (712, C3000, L2000, A500). ia64: Intel IA-64 ("Itanium") computers. s390: IBM S/390 mainframe systems.
