[Xapian-discuss] Xapian 0.8.2 released

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:47:16AM +0000, fabrice.colin at ntlworld.com wrote:
> > From: Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>
> > I think "Applications/Databases" is probably the best fit
> > of any of the "Applications" categories.  Xapian is a free
> > text searching database (although I suspect many will
> > assume "relational database" when they see "database").
> 
> I like this, this gets my vote ;-)

OK.

> Just out of curiosity, what do the Debian packages use ? I
> am not familiar with Debian, maybe this doesn't apply.

The sections are rather different for Debian.  The current list is:

    admin, base, comm, contrib, 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

Richard picked "utils" for the corresponding debian package.

Debian has a separate (though similar) list for categorising packages
in desktop menus - that's not really relevant here though, as none
of these programs can sensibly be run from a desktop menu (they all
require parameters).

Cheers,
    Olly