On Friday, 23 June 2017 23:39:36 CEST Russ Allbery wrote: > It's worth noting that registering a virtual package with Policy is > optional if it is used among a cooperating set of packages, and there are > numerous virtual packages in Debian that are not listed there.
Indeed, Config;:Model::Dependency hard codes [1] a list of other virtual packages (the ones I stumbled upon :-/ ) on top of the official list. > That said, if there's some desire for automated consumption of the list > from the Policy package, I'd be happy to provide it in a machine-readable > format. Yes, please, I'd rather avoid manual duplicating of information (even if this list does not change often) > I wonder if there would be some merit in building a separate > binary package from the debian-policy source package that includes a few > lists like that (archive sections also come to mind) in machine-readable > formats in /usr/share somewhere. Indeed, the list of section is also hardcoded [2] in libconfig-model-dpkg-perl. In the meantime, I'll fix the mistake I made with the list of virtual packages. Many thanks to Paul for the heads-up. All the best [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libconfig-model-dpkg-perl.git/tree/lib/Config/Model/Dpkg/Dependency.pm#n139 [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libconfig-model-dpkg-perl.git/tree/lib/Config/Model/models/Dpkg/Control/Source.pl#n103 -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org
