[maemo-developers] [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Simon Pickering" <S.G.Pickering at bath.ac.uk> writes:

> Can the Debian system support multiple sub-categories? E.g.
> user/multimedia/Ringtones

That would be debtags, http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/

We have been talking about using debtags instead of the "Section:
user/FOO" hack to control visibility, but my opinion right now is that
we can not use the existing Debian tag vocabulary for expressing
visibility (just as we can't use the existing list of sections of
Debian), so it is 'only' a implementation detail whether to use the
Section or the Tags field to control visibility.

But of course, debtags are better in every regard than sections, so we
should not ignore them in our plans.