[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#659357: "section: devel"

[Simon McVittie]

On 10/02/12 13:55, Justin B Rye wrote:
> There is no obvious reason for filing D-Bus alongside fort77 and
> piuparts in the "devel" section.  Unlike them it is a piece of system
> infrastructure guaranteed to be installed and in regular use on any 
> end-user machine with a mainstream desktop environment.

Agreed.

Compare:
> 
> 	PACKAGE		SECTION	DEPENDENCIES
> 	acpi-support	admin	Recommends: dbus
> 	consolekit	admin	Depends: dbus
> 	dbus		devel
> 	dbus-x11	x11	Depends: dbus
> 	policykit	admin	Depends: dbus
> 	rsyslog		admin 
> 	udev		admin
> 	udisks		admin	Depends: dbus
> 
> In case it isn't obvious, I think it should be in "admin".

I'm not really convinced that most of these should be 'admin' either -
'admin' is described as "Utilities to administer system resources,
manage user accounts, etc." in the most authoritative reference I could
find[1], and D-Bus is an IPC system, not a sysadmin tool - but in
practice 'admin' seems to have become secret code for 'miscellaneous
system-wide daemons' so I suppose we might as well be consistent with
that. It's not as if any of the other sections really fit any better,
unless/until someone follows the Linux Plumbers' Conference's example
and adds a 'plumbing' section...

I'll "fix" this in the next upload.

Thanks,
    s

[1] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/