On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 06:25:05AM +0800, Andrew Lee wrote: > Dear maintainer, > > My proposal has been posted on debian-devel for a few weeks, and seems > no objected. > So now I am retitling this bug and refine the brief description: > > I would like to propose stardict as a name of virtual package: > stardict: application capable of reading stardict-dictdata
I guess that should be "reading stardict-dictionary", since that seems to be an existing virtual package. It doesn't seem to be used however. > We have these packages related to this proposal in the archive: > stardict, stardict-gtk, sdcv > > What I wish do to with this new virtual package: > - - Rename stardict to 'stardict-gnome'. > - - Make stardict-gnome, stardict-gtk, sdcv Provides 'stardict'. So, why would them providing stardict be a good thing? What you really want to do with a virtual package is to have a dependency on the virtual package. So, which package could/should depend on stardict? There currently isn't any package that has a dependency on it, and I don't see how it would be useful. I'm also not really sure if stardict-dictionary is a good virtual package. I think in general you might want to have more than 1 package installed that provides a dictionary. It might also be that that dictionary is not packaged for Debian or is non-free, so having a Depends on it might not always be what you want. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]