Re: Bug#385935: debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict' virtual package.
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 06:25:05AM +0800, Andrew Lee wrote:
> Dear maintainer,
>
> My proposal has been posted on debian-devel for a few weeks, and seems
> no objected.
> So now I am retitling this bug and refine the brief description:
>
> I would like to propose stardict as a name of virtual package:
> stardict: application capable of reading stardict-dictdata
I guess that should be "reading stardict-dictionary", since that
seems to be an existing virtual package. It doesn't seem to be
used however.
> We have these packages related to this proposal in the archive:
> stardict, stardict-gtk, sdcv
>
> What I wish do to with this new virtual package:
> - - Rename stardict to 'stardict-gnome'.
> - - Make stardict-gnome, stardict-gtk, sdcv Provides 'stardict'.
So, why would them providing stardict be a good thing?
What you really want to do with a virtual package is to have a
dependency on the virtual package. So, which package could/should
depend on stardict? There currently isn't any package that has a
dependency on it, and I don't see how it would be useful.
I'm also not really sure if stardict-dictionary is a good virtual
package. I think in general you might want to have more than 1
package installed that provides a dictionary. It might also be that
that dictionary is not packaged for Debian or is non-free, so having a
Depends on it might not always be what you want.
Kurt
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