Re: Could someone please check my packages?
Hi,
>>"Javier" == Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@ieeesb.etsit.upm.es> writes:
Javier> I have some concerns before uploading these into master (when
Javier> and if I get a quick connection to it). If you take a look at
Javier> vrwave (Java-based) it depends on "jdk-shared |
Javier> jdk-static". But, alas, those are the name of JDK 1.0.2
Javier> (stable) packages, JDK 1.1 packages aren't named that way. Is
Javier> there any way I can say that it depends on jdk (just as
Javier> sometimes you use depends: mail-reader...). I also say that
Javier> "Provides: vrml-browser"... is this correct, i.e. can I just
Javier> make up any tags like that? (I suppose not) Whom I must ask?
Hmm. Do you mean jkd runtime, or the dev versions? I think
that we should see if we can get a discussion going on debian-devel
about the virtual names. It may not hurt to ask the opinion of the
jdk maintainer Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> beforehand.
As to your other question about virtual packages in general,
this excerpt may help:
______________________________________________________________________
AUTHORITATIVE LIST OF VIRTUAL PACKAGE NAMES
Oct 1997, 21
Below is an authoritative list of virtual package names currently
in-use or proposed and not objected to. Please check the list below
for things relevant to your packages.
New packages MUST use virtual package names where appropriate (this
includes making new ones - read on).
Packages MUST NOT use virtual package names (except privately, amongst
a cooperating group of packages) unless they have been agreed upon and
appear in this list.
The latest version of this file can be found in
doc/package-developer/virtual-package-names-list.text
on your local Debian FTP site.
The procedure for updating the list is as follows:
1. Post to debian-devel saying what names you intend to use or what
other changes you wish to make.
2. Wait a few days for comment.
3. Mail the maintainer of the virtual package name list (Christian
Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>) notifying him of the consensus reached (or
your suggestions if noone objected). Please include a proposed brief
description of the new virtual name(s) for the list. The list
maintainer will then post the new list to debian-devel and upload it
to the FTP site.
4. Go and use the new or changed names.
______________________________________________________________________
manoj
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