Channel Definition
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The .info files allow to specify a set of default channels that is available
in the dialog "add channel". The .info file whose name corresponds to the
LSB release name is used, e.g. 'Ubuntu.info' on a Ubuntu system.

Furthermore all .info files are used to render the channels presented in the
sources list more user friendly.

Abstract paragraphs
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If the Suite name contains a {, the entire paragraph becomes a template
that gets formatted with distro-info-data data. See the Ubuntu.info.in
and Debian.info.in for examples.

Note that in such a case, if these paragraphs use { in their values for
non-template things, such as in regular expressions; they need to be
escaped - { to {{ and } to }}.

Abstract paragraphs can only be in the middle of the file, the head and the
tail are copied unmodified. If abstract paragraphs are interleaved with
concrete ones, the behavior is undefined.

Tags
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Suite:           the name of the dist used in the repository

MatchSuite:      mainly used for cdroms. defaults to Suite

ParentSuite:     the channel only appears as a component of the parent suite in
                 the add dialog
                 the components/sections of the suite correspond to the ones of
	         the parent suite. specified components of the suite itself
		 are ignored
	
Available:	 determs the availabilty of the suite in the add dialog.
                 defaults to False

RepositoryType:  does the repository contain binary or source packages

BaseURI:         the base URI of the repository

MatchURI:        used for identifing mirrors

Description:     description of the suite. the translation is done through
                 gettext at runtime

Component:       a component/section of the suite (ignored if ParentSuite is
                 set)

CompDescription: humand readable description of the component/section
                 (ignored if ParentSuite is set). the translation is done
		 through gettext at runtime

ValidMirros:     A file that contains a list of mirrors