debmirror uses the term "section" inconsistently
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debmirror (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
According to the manpage (and to me using it):
-s, --section=
Specify the section of Debian to mirror. Defaults to "main,contrib,
According to the debian glossary (and other usage), "section" is something like "kde" or "games":
https:/
Which is consistent with its usage in debian/control files: "Section". debmirror seems to mean "component".
Furthermore, in the debmirror man page, it uses "section" correctly, but calls it "Debian Section":
--exclude-
Never download any files whose Debian Section (games, doc, oldlibs, science, ...) match the regex. May be used multiple times.
Functionally, this means I can't just mirror the section "base" without doing --exclude-