Hi, On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:10:51AM +0200, Mario Iseli wrote: > as described in > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt > I announce here my idea of the virtual package ircd. When I count > correctly are at the moment 7 different IRC-daemons in Debian and they > logically conflict with each other. So I would think an official virtual > package would be a fine solution. There are also IRC services which work > in general with all ircds, so it would be easier if those packages also > could only depend on "ircd".
As the (co-)maintainer of 2 IRCd packages and 2 IRC services packages, I completely disagree. Some IRC servers do *not* conflict, so a virtual package is unnecessary. If they conflict, like ircd-hybrid and dancer-ircd, it is up to the maintainer to manage the conflicts. Some services, if not all, are designed to work on a specific IRCd. For instance, hybserv is supposed to only run with ircd-hybrid and dancer-services to only run with dancer-ircd. I do *not* want to undertake the maintenance of a services package on other IRC servers that the one for which it is designed. > I file now the bug against debian-policy and say thank you in advance > for your answer. For what my opinion is worth on the matter, I engage the maintainers of debian-policy to discard this bug. Thanks. Cheers, -- .''`. Aurélien GÉRÔME : :' : `. `'` Free Software Developer `- Unix Sys & Net Admin
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