Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt

[David Steele <steele@debian.org>]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 5:29 PM David Steele <steele@debian.org> wrote:

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 3:48 PM Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:

Putting aside the use of the alternatives system, why is a virtual
package wanted?  When would it be useful to be able to declare a
dependency and have it satisfied by one of these implementations?

As an example, a future rev of an integrated todo.txt-gtd[1] would depend on that virtual package.

[1]:  https://github.com/davesteele/todo.txt-gtd

Somehow I don't have a copy or your reply.

Imagine that tdtcleanup is a pre/post hook in todo.txt-base. An implementation of todo.txt is needed

to make use of it.