Re: Please add virtual-mysql-* pacakges to the official list of virtual packages

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 06:14:28PM +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Paul noted to me that the file
> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt
> does not list mysql-virtual-* packages.
> 
> I suggest you to add it there.
> 
> This virtual package naming scheme has been agreed on inside the
> pkg-mysql-maint team (which is accepted according to
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-virtual_pkg).
> 
> This has been announced by James Page in August 2014:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/08/msg00016.html
> There were no objections. It has also been announced in MDN#37:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg00015.html
> 
> The policy is documented at
> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL/virtual-mysql-server and followed
> by all MariaDB, MySQL, Percona and Mysql-wsrep packages out there, and
> many many "consuming" packages.
> 
> It would be good that the file
> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt
> also mentioned it.

Hello Otto,

Could you provide the list of the new virtual packages together with their 
description ?

The page you link provide the list but no description.

Cheers,
Bill.