[maemo-developers] AM limitations

[From: Neal H. Walfield]

At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:32:52 +0300,
Marius Vollmer wrote:
> 
> "ext Niels Breet" <maemo at breet.com> writes:
> 
> > There is no official list of categories, which has brought us to state
> > we are in now.
> 
> There is, http://hildon-app-mgr.garage.maemo.org/packaging-stable.html:
> 
>     Segments and Sections
> 
>     By default, the AM only shows packages in certain segments to the
>     user. This has been done to hide the existence of the hundreds of
>     system packages that make up the operating system itself. The AM is,
>     at this point, not intended to let the user manage the whole system,
>     only a smaller set of third party applications.
> 
>     The AM only shows packages in the user segment. Thus, your Section
>     field in the control file should be of the form

It's worse than this (at least on Bora).  Downloading a .deb and
opening it in the AM results in an error if the .deb doesn't have
Section user/FOO.