Re: virtual packages

[Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>]

Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:

> Policy says:
> 
>      All packages must use virtual package names where appropriate, and
>      arrange to create new ones if necessary. They must not use virtual
>      package names (except privately, amongst a cooperating group of
>      packages) unless they have been agreed upon and appear in the list of
>      virtual package names.
> 
> I think the cooperating group of packages clause describes your situation.

Thank you, I reread that passage myself and somehow completely missed that
sentence.

And to Branden, yes I noticed that conflict with the name xfs, the packages I
uploaded don't use that name.

greg