On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:43:06AM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> writes: > > lintian does not correctly recognize libgl-dev and libglu-dev (both > > packages used for building OpenGL programs) as virtual packages. > > I'm not sure we should. Policy 3.6 tells people that only virtual > packages agreed upon should be used and those 2 are not listed on > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt. One may invent new names provided it is synchronized among the using packages. > OTOH, many packages are using those 2 packages, so a check may spot some > problems: > he@Asfaloth:~$ grep-dctrl -F Build-Depends libgl-dev -s Package /var/lib/apt/lists/*sid*Sources | wc -l > 73 > he@Asfaloth:~$ grep-dctrl -F Build-Depends libglu-dev -s Package /var/lib/apt/lists/*sid*Sources | wc -l > 31 > > What do you think? I think we should provide a full list of all current virtual packages in lintian... Not just these two. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar Jeroen@wolffelaar.nl (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
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