Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I cant find any details on the virtual package kernel-image except its >name, do virtual packages have priorities and can they be marked >essential ?
Virtual packages are called that because they are just names that are provided by other packages. The packages that provide them have priorities and can be marked essential, sure. But, since there's no entry in the Packages file for them, there's nowhere to mark the virtual package itself essential. The situation is slightly different with mixed virtual packages, where you also have a real package by the same name; for instance, trn is a real package and is also provided by strn. However, the control fields of trn still don't apply to strn; the virtual package is a different entity to the real package by the same name. I'm sure I've explained this badly, because it's complicated. For the full, accurate details, you should look in section 2.3.5 of the Debian Policy Manual (package debian-policy) and section 8.4 of the Debian Packaging Manual (package packaging-manual). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]