Task:Package categories

This wiki page serves as a discussion page where we will try to find a better way to categorize packages in the repositories.

This proposal is coordinated by Niels Breet.

= Proposal = This is a DRAFT UNDER DISCUSSION. You can help reaching conclusions. Please add your comments to the discussion page. This proposal is part of the Extras repository process definition.

= Maemo Packaging Policy =

The Maemo Packaging Policy lists the following sections:


 * accessories
 * communication
 * games
 * multimedia
 * office
 * other
 * programming
 * support
 * themes
 * tools

One of the benefits of using official categories from this list, is that they will appear correctly localized in the Application Manager.

= Problem =

People feel the need to create new categories, because the current list is too limited.

Another problem is that some categories aren't very descriptive. What applications go in to tools, support or accessories?

= Proposed solutions =

Additional categories
We could add more categories to the official list. To do this we need to define a list of categories that need to be added. Please add your proposed category here:


 * desktop: A category for desktop plugins. --xfade 15:13, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Debtags
add info about debtags here

= Reference = The Debian archive maintainers provide the authoritative list of sections. At present, they are: admin, comm, devel, doc, editors, electronics, embedded, games, gnome, graphics, hamradio, interpreters, kde, libs, libdevel, mail, math, misc, net, news, oldlibs, otherosfs, perl, python, science, shells, sound, tex, text, utils, web, x11.