On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:55:18PM -0500, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> was heard to say: > As I'm sure everyone knows, pure virtual entries in a Depends line are > strongly deprecated, due to the fact that frontends have a tendency to pick > a random provider of the package. What I'm not sure is if this is just "ugly" > or actually considered a bug. In particular, I can't remember and would like > to know: > > (a) Is a pure virtual entry with no prior alternative in a Depends line an > actual bug? i.e., do we have a consensus on this? > > (b) If the answer to (a) is "yes", is a pure virtual *Recommendation* a bug? > > Rationale: Recommendations are intended to be installed by default, so > their fields should be just as friendly to automatic tools as Depends is. So can I take it that the answer to my question is "there is no such policy"? Daniel
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