[maemo-developers] AM limitations

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Neal H. Walfield" <neal at walfield.org> writes:

>>     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.

Yes, but that's a somewhat separate issue.  You can use whatever
category you want (i.e., FOO can be arbitrary), but you need to use the
"user/" prefix in the "Section:" field.

This has been done to avoid the surprise of installing a package that
installs successfully but will afterwards not be listed in the
"Installed applications" view.