On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 02:46:25PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > BTW: Now that I think of it... Does the fact that unzip-crypt provides > > unzip make unzip to be a virtual package? > > Yes. Though other packages can still have "Depends:", "Conflicts:" etc. with > the concrete pkunzip package if there is a version number mentioned, I > think. > > > If so, should I ask unzip and zip to be added to the authoritative list of > > virtual packages?
The policy for virtual packages allow use of "unregistered" virtual packages (i.e., those that are not on the list) for "local use": ``Packages MUST NOT use virtual package names (except privately, amongst a cooperating group of packages) unless they have been agreed upon and appear in this list.'' In my interpretation, your case (unzip) is covered by the exception. Any objections? > Perhaps. It would be very useful if someone could go over the actual > virtual packages (grep '^Provides:' /var/lib/dpkg/available) and see > what other virtual packages ought to be registered with the authorative > list. Yes, this would be good. But remember, that not every "Provide:" has to be registered (see above). I think you can exclude virtual packages which have a corresponding "real" package (like in the case of unzip), and also virtual packages which come from the same source/maintainer (i.e., the lg-* packages all provide lg-issue). thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.perl.com http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .