Fwd: Debian "Packages" web page confuses the terms "Sections" and "Components"

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From: Ya'aqov Ben Nun <[email protected]>
Date: sex, 24 de ago de 2018 03:05
Subject: Re: Debian "Packages" web page confuses the terms "Sections" and
"Components"
To: Paul Wise <[email protected]>


Hi. Just giving my to cents to the subject maybe it's about time to make
the whole thing with a unique terminology.


Em sex, 24 de ago de 2018 00:04, Paul Wise <[email protected]> escreveu:

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 2:15 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
>
> > According to
> > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#archive-areas
> > that would be "area".
>
> According to the archive itself, they are components:
>
> Components: main contrib non-free
>
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/Release
>
> I guess for space reasons, the Packages/Sources files combine the
> component with the section:
>
> Section: contrib/misc
>
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/Sources.gz
>
> OTOH, the repository format documentation says:
>
> "Components: A whitespace separated list of areas."
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Format#Components
>
> > But additionally to that, "area" is used erroneously at
> > https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages for the definition of the
> > distribution (like in "This area contains packages that are ..." when
> > talking about Testing).
>
> I think all our documentation is pretty confused about the terminology
> used around repositories.
>
> I think that "area" is a more understandable word than "component"
> when the documentation is end-user oriented and that "component" could
> be added (either via mouseover hover text or via text in parentheses)
> depending on how new to Debian the audience is expected to be.
>
> To make it worse, Ubuntu introduced a word "pocket" that isn't used by
> Debian folks.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArchiveAdministration
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
>
>