[maemo-developers] Software categories (was do we need garage sandbox repos?)

[From: Guillem Jover]

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 17:17:41 +0100, Neil MacLeod wrote:
> Guillem Jover wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:32:01 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> > There's no cli section in Debian. But anyway, what you did is incorrect,
> > as the Section from the '.deb' packages is not the authoritative
> > source. The Section:s are overriden on the archive, so you should check
> > from the Package metaindex files. «apt-cache show» is your friend.
> 
> $ apt-cache show ncurses-bin | grep -i cli
> Section: user/cli

Ah, I was talking about the Debian package. I find it disturbing that
the Section:s are being modified on all those packages, this is useless
divergence! If there's really a need to change the Section the override
on the archive side should be used instead...

> Any other suggestions as to how Application Manager is determining what
> applications appear within each "button" in the "Browse Installable
> applications" page?

Right, currently it's using the Section, but personally I think that's
a mistake, which I've told Marius several times, the proper solution is
using tags.

regards,
guillem