Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Following the short discussion starting at [1], I'm submitting the following list of virtual packages, to facilitate the declaration of protocol compatibility between boardgame AI engines, boardgame GUI's and protocol adapters:
* cecp-game-engine * cecp-game-ui * uci-game-engine * uci-game-ui * xshogi-game-engine * xshogi-game-ui * gtp2-game-engine * gtp2-game-ui As explained in the discussion, there are other protocols in use, but used only by one pair of packages each, so we may want to defer addition of those protocols until new packages using them arrive. Here is an example use of such virtual packages, which makes use of the rarely used protocols: | Engines would declare eg: | Package: gpsshogi | Provides: csa-game-engine, usi-game-engine | Recommends: $PREFERED_UI | csa-game-ui | usi-game-ui | | And GUIs would similarly declare eg: | Package: XBoard | Provides: cecp-game-ui | Recommends: $PREFERED_ENGINE | cecp-game-engine | | And adaptors: | Package: uci2wb | Provides: cecp-game-engine, uci-game-ui, usi-game-ui, ucci-game-ui | Recommends: $PREFERED_UI | cecp-game-ui, | $PREFERED_ENGINE | uci-game-engine | usi-game-engine | ucci-game-engine If we only standardize the above list, the example becomes as follow, which does not look too bad: | Engines would declare eg: | Package: gpsshogi | Recommends: uci2wb | | And GUIs would similarly declare eg: | Package: XBoard | Provides: cecp-game-ui | Recommends: $PREFERED_ENGINE | cecp-game-engine | | And adaptors: | Package: uci2wb | Provides: cecp-game-engine, uci-game-ui | Recommends: $PREFERED_UI | cecp-game-ui, | gpsshogi | eleeye [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-games-devel/2015-February/033607.html -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
