On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 08:39:07PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.50 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > The attached patch provides an update with new archive sections for > programming > language packages. See https://bugs.debian.org/753480 and > https://bugs.debian.org/845576 for more on the new sections. ftpmaster has > approved adding the two new sections, conditional on support for them in the > various packages with lists of archive section names. > > We'd like to include support for these sections in the next stable release of > Debian, so that packages from stable can process packages from testing, > unstable, experimental, backports, and third-party archives without > encountering unknown section names. > > Please consider applying this patch and uploading a version with this patch > included in either December or early January, to allow plenty of time for the > upload to propagate to testing before the freeze in early February.
Patch actually attached this time. (Apparently reportbug's -A option doesn't work with --mutt.) - Josh Triplett
>From dcff614622d4b282c2645b41b7c19b28d676977b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 20:02:45 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add sections for Rust and JavaScript --- checks/fields.desc | 4 ++-- data/fields/archive-sections | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/checks/fields.desc b/checks/fields.desc index 7df3deecc..051ff4640 100644 --- a/checks/fields.desc +++ b/checks/fields.desc @@ -334,9 +334,9 @@ Info: The "Section:" field in this package's control file is not one of admin, comm, cli-mono, database, debug, devel, doc, editors, electronics, embedded, fonts, games, gnome, gnu-r, gnustep, graphics, hamradio, haskell, httpd, interpreters, - java, kde, libdevel, libs, lisp, localization, kernel, mail, + java, javascript, kde, libdevel, libs, lisp, localization, kernel, mail, math, misc, net, news, ocaml, oldlibs, otherosfs, perl, - php, python, ruby, science, shells, sound, tex, text, + php, python, ruby, rust, science, shells, sound, tex, text, utils, vcs, video, web, x11, xfce, zope. . The section name should be preceded by "non-free/" if the package diff --git a/data/fields/archive-sections b/data/fields/archive-sections index 3061d87c3..56c1bdf92 100644 --- a/data/fields/archive-sections +++ b/data/fields/archive-sections @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ httpd interpreters introspection java +javascript kernel kde libdevel @@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ perl php python ruby +rust science shells sound -- 2.11.0
