Re: additional virtual packages for kde
[Please note, that this discussion has just been resolved--see the other
mails. I just want to comment on this mail generally.]
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> > I thought that policy required discussion, not just notification.
>
> thanks for telling me ! i looked at the policy :
> ... (using and not using virtual packages) ...
> They must not use virtual package names (except privately, amongst a
> cooperating group of packages) unless they have been agreed upon and
> appear in the list of virtual package names.
>
> kde* is a privately, and its a cooperating group of packages.
> so everything is fine with policy, problem solved.
[This interpretation of policy is _wrong_, obviously, since the proposed
virtual packages would have been used globally, namely by Debian packages
and KDE's packages.]
Chris.
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