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List of sections in "trusty-backports"

Administration Utilities: Utilities to administer system resources, manage user accounts, etc.
Databases: Database Servers and Clients.
debian-installer udeb packages: Special packages for building customized debian-installer variants. Do not install them on a normal system!
Debug packages: Packages providing debugging information for executables and shared libraries.
Development: Development utilities, compilers, development environments, libraries, etc.
Documentation: FAQs, HOWTOs and other documents trying to explain everything related to Debian, and software needed to browse documentation (man, info, etc).
Fonts: Font packages.
Games: Programs to spend a nice time with after all this setting up.
GNOME: The GNOME desktop environment, a powerful, easy to use set of integrated applications.
Graphics: Editors, viewers, converters... Everything to become an artist.
Web Servers: Web servers and their modules.
Interpreters: All kind of interpreters for interpreted languages. Macro processors.
Java: Everything about Java.
KDE: The K Desktop Environment, a powerful, easy to use set of integrated applications.
Kernels: Operating System Kernels and related modules.

Library development: Libraries necessary for developers to write programs that use them.

Libraries: Libraries to make other programs work. They provide special features to developers.
Mail: Programs to route, read, and compose E-mail messages.
Miscellaneous: Miscellaneous utilities that didn't fit well anywhere else.
Network: Daemons and clients to connect your system to the world.
Old Libraries: Old versions of libraries, kept for backward compatibility with old applications.
PHP: Everything about PHP.
Python: Everything about Python, an interpreted, interactive object oriented language.
Science: Basic tools for scientific work
Shells: Command shells. Friendly user interfaces for beginners.
Text Processing: Utilities to format and print text documents.
Utilities: Utilities for file/disk manipulation, backup and archive tools, system monitoring, input systems, etc.
Version Control Systems: Version control systems and related utilities.
Virtual packages: Virtual packages.
Web Software: Web servers, browsers, proxies, download tools etc.
X Window System software: X servers, libraries, fonts, window managers, terminal emulators and many related applications.
Xfce: Xfce, a fast and lightweight Desktop Environment.