On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 09:58:17AM +0200, Tepperis-von der Ohe, Michael wrote: > hi, > > thanks for this hint. but how I recognize a package as being 'virtual'? > the Packages files offers this information only sometimes in the > description area. > > Does an extra list of virtual packages exist? Where?
See Debian Policy section 3.6 Virtual Packages: The latest version of the authoritative list of virtual package names can be found in the debian-policy package. It is also available from the Debian web mirrors at /doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt. Armed with that information, take a look at /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/virtual-package-names-list.txt.gz on your local machine, or at http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt (or the same path on your friendly neighborhood Debian mirror webserver) Hope that helps! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If the meanings of 'true' and 'false' were switched, then this sentence wouldn't be false.
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