Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.0.1 Severity: wishlist Hello, please find attached a patch which adds some virtual package names used by doom-related packages to the authorative list in policy. Although the rules are that private, cooperating packages can use names outside of this list, and the doom packages most likely are private, cooperating packages, I can't see a reason why we shouldn't submit the names anyway. I couldn't find an existing group within the file to which the names belong, so my patch creates a new one, "Games and Game-related". A brief explanation as to their meaning. Doom games are divided into engine and world-resource components. The former is captured by 'doom-engine'. The latter is covered by two different names, 'boom-wad' and 'doom-wad'. There is a need for two because 'freedoom' -- open source doom game data -- uses features that were not available in the original doom engine, but in a derivative called 'boom'. Boom features are widely supported in the engines out there, but not exclusively. All the engines in Debian so far support the boom feature set, so this has not been an issue. However, at least two popular engines do not: "doomsday" (a 3D, wizzy-graphics one, which has certainly been packaged outside of debian) and "chocolate-doom", which aims to behave as close to the original doom as possible. The distinction between boom-wad and doom-wad opens the door for packaging chocolate-doom (which I have had on my TODO list since late etch). The existing doom packages transitioned towards using boom-wad within the Lenny cycle. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash debian-policy depends on no packages. debian-policy recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: ii doc-base 0.8.16 utilities to manage online documen -- no debconf information -- Jon Dowland http://jmtd.net/
--- virtual-package-names-list.txt~ 2009-03-03 18:49:11.000000000 +0000
+++ virtual-package-names-list.txt 2009-03-03 18:52:33.000000000 +0000
@@ -179,6 +179,15 @@
scheme-srfi-55 Scheme interpreter accepting the SRFI 55 language
extension
+Games and Game-related
+----------------------
+
+ doom-engine An executable Doom engine
+ doom-wad The data component of a Doom game, compatible with
+ the original Doom engine
+ boom-wad The data component of a Doom game, using features
+ from the "boom" engine family
+
Old and obsolete virtual package names
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Note, that no other package then the ones listed here should use
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