Alessio Treglia <ales...@debian.org> writes: > Why tightening up rules? Policy ยง3.6 does not pretend packages to meet > any specs nor comply with common interfaces, it just says "Sometimes > there are several packages which offer more-or-less the same > functionality. In this case, it's useful to define a virtual package > whose name describes that common functionality."
The question is: *why* is it useful? What is it useful *for*? If it's not useful for anything, then we shouldn't incur the overhead of defining it and expecting maintainers to use it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehjm27dh....@windlord.stanford.edu
