On Vi, 07 feb 14, 19:22:06, Christoph Ender wrote: > > I’m currently thinking about creating a virtual package for "fizmo". This > was a single package in squeeze, got split up into "fizmo-ncursesw" and > "fizmo-console" in wheezy, keeping a transitional "fizmo" package in > oldlibs (which pulled in fizmo-ncursesw so far). "fizmo-sdl" is still in > beta but might be released this year. > > I'd like to drop the transitional "fizmo" package for the jessie release > and provide a virtual package of the same name instead (this will give > people trying to install fizmo give at least a clue why the package > apparently isn't there anymore and the alternatives system looks like a > good way for managing a link to the installed binary). I don't think this is very nice to users who would do 'apt-get install fizmo': root@sid:~# LANG=C apt-get install mailx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package mailx is a virtual package provided by: mailutils 1:2.99.98-1.1 heirloom-mailx 12.5-2 bsd-mailx 8.1.2-0.20131005cvs-1 You should explicitly select one to install. E: Package 'mailx' has no installation candidate root@sid:~# apt-get install bsd-mailx ... root@sid:~# LANG=C apt-get purge mailx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Virtual packages like 'mailx' can't be removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded. Do you expect any issues to having a dummy package fizmo to pull whatever implementation you consider to be the most likely to be wanted by users? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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