Package: debian-policy Priority: wishlist Hi all, Wims is a recent Debian package which will be more widely used in the near future as a part of Debian-Edu (currently it is a dependency on its metapackage education-services) and it's being use in Linex (Extremadura region official debian based distribution) schools.
Its installation can be done by requiring the package wims, which depends from the package wims-modules. When installed, they feature a webserver for educational exercises of outstanding quality, localised in many languages. However most of the "meat" is provided by the packages wims-extra-xx, which contain hundreds of educational modules (this number hopefully will grow quickly). In July 2007, the installed size of wims-extra-all is roughly 200 MBytes. Some webmasters might want to install less rich sets of modules, for example only the modules localised in their language, or a set of modules targeted to a particular domain of study. There is already a package wims-extra-es with Spanish-only modules, and some other packages might be made available in the near future, like a French-only collection, or a collection dedicated to physics and chemistry, etc. The current wims maintainer (who is in the cc'ed list for this mail) asked me to sponsor this package, and, after some conversations with him, we both agree that wims package should have a recommends to a virtual package called "wims-extra", so people may provide packages for the "meat" with their particular flavor, while the package wims-extra-all providing wims-extra would be part of the official distribution. Currently wims-extra is a real package, which is part of Debian Stable (version 3.60-1), so the situation would be the following after an acceptation of its name for a virtual package: - newer versions of wims and wims-modules (3.62) would enter Unstable and their dependencies would entail the replacement of any older version of wims-extra. - the new version of wims-extra (3.62) would be a virtual package. - wims-extra-all (version 3.62) would enter Unstable and provide wims-extra. - wims-extra-es (already part of the distro Linex) would provide wims-extra. So, I propose to add this entry to the virtual package list: wims-extra - extra exercises, translations and modules that enhance wims functionalities. Best regards, José L.
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