use section 'libs'?

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Tue May 19 16:59:01 UTC 2009


On 2009-05-18 Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:
> Why is gnutls26 in section 'devel'?  Shouldn't it be in 'libs'?  Other
> similar libraries appears to be in 'libs', including libtasn1,
> libgcrypt, and openssl.  How about patch below?

> /Simon

> Index: control
> ===================================================================
> --- control	(revision 707)
> +++ control	(working copy)
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  Source: gnutls26
> -Section: devel
> +Section: libs
>  Priority: optional
[...]

Hello,

I really have no idea what purpose the Section setting of the source
package serves (except for setting a default value for the binary
packages). 
cu andreas

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