Package: debian-policy
Priority: wishlist
Hi all,
Wims is a recent Debian package which will be more widely used in the near future
as a part of Debian-Edu (currently it is a dependency on its metapackage education-services)
and it's being use in Linex (Extremadura region official debian based distribution) schools.
Its installation can be done by requiring the package wims, which
depends from the package wims-modules. When installed, they feature a
webserver for educational exercises of outstanding quality, localised in
many languages.
However most of the "meat" is provided by the packages wims-extra-xx,
which contain hundreds of educational modules (this number hopefully
will grow quickly). In July 2007, the installed size of wims-extra-all
is roughly 200 MBytes. Some webmasters might want to install less rich
sets of modules, for example only the modules localised in their
language, or a set of modules targeted to a particular domain of study.
There is already a package wims-extra-es with Spanish-only modules, and
some other packages might be made available in the near future, like a
French-only collection, or a collection dedicated to physics and
chemistry, etc.
The current wims maintainer (who is in the cc'ed list for this mail)
asked me to sponsor this package, and, after some conversations with
him, we both agree that wims package should have a recommends to a
virtual package called "wims-extra", so people may provide packages for
the "meat" with their particular flavor, while the package
wims-extra-all providing wims-extra would be part of the official
distribution.
Currently wims-extra is a real package, which is part of Debian Stable
(version 3.60-1), so the situation would be the following after an
acceptation of its name for a virtual package:
- newer versions of wims and wims-modules (3.62) would enter Unstable
and their dependencies would entail the replacement of any older
version of wims-extra.
- the new version of wims-extra (3.62) would be a virtual package.
- wims-extra-all (version 3.62) would enter Unstable and provide
wims-extra.
- wims-extra-es (already part of the distro Linex) would provide
wims-extra.
So, I propose to add this entry to the virtual package list:
wims-extra - extra exercises, translations and modules that enhance wims functionalities.
Best regards,
José L.
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