Re: Is any future development needed on 'dir' files?

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   I am on a debian testing and my dir is somewhat messy, there are many
   similar categories that are not well grouped, for example:

   Compression
   * Gzip: (gzip).                 General (de)compression of files (lzw).

   Data Compression
   * Lzip: (lzip).                 LZMA lossless data compressor

I sent a bug report to lzip.

   >    This TODO entry seems to me to be still relevant.  But first it seems
   >    to me that the categories in util/dir-example do not match the 
categories
   >    in https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Category/All.
   > 
   > Is that a good idea that they should match? The two have different
   > purposes, I think.

   I have no idea on that matter, but it was what was used at the time the
   categories were put in util/dir-example, unless I misinterpreted the
   informations.  If it is unclear that this is the right source for
   cactegories, it should be said more clearly, in particular at the
   beginning of of util/dir-example, there is:

   rms suggested that we follow the categories of the Free Software
     Directory (http://www.gnu.org/directory/) where possible, including
     `minimal' capitalization, that is, just the first word and proper nouns.

Category/Use/compressing vs. "Compression" ?!  I think the suggestion
could need some real improvment. :-/