On Mar 05, 2009 at 23:46, green praised the llamas by saying: > > The bug report was prompted like this: when I was trying out different irc > clients I wanted to see a list of them together. The first thing that came > to > mind was checking for an irc virtual package. There was one and I tried all > of > the text-mode clients there. I wasn't really satisfied with any of them and > noticed irssi somewhere so I searched for it. Obviously if it had been in > the > irc virtual package, then I would have found it more quickly.
That's what apt-cache search is for. > > The policy does say > "All packages should use virtual package names where appropriate, and > arrange > to create new ones if necessary." > but 'irc' is not in the "authoritative list" and 'irc' has no rdepends, so if > you choose to leave irssi 'provides' as it is, I will accept that. I'm not convinced that different irc clients are truely drop in replacements. virtual packages are useful for things like mail transfer agents or webservers or java virtual machines where a package doesn't care what is installed, because they'll all provide the service they require. I think both of us are in agreement that irssi shouldn't provide the irc virtual package. Sorry. -- David Pashley da...@davidpashley.com Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
