Re: virtual packages for Ada libraries

2023-07-16 Thread Jeremy Bícha
On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 7:50 AM Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I now recall: The Rust library packages wreaking havoc by prematurely > entering testing is (at least partly) due to the Rust team choosing to > flag all(!) autopkgtests as flaky, so not really a concern for other > teams (read: just don't

Re: virtual packages for Ada libraries

2023-07-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2023-07-15 10:05:24) > Quoting Nicolas Boulenguez (2023-07-12 15:55:09) > > The Ada maintainers are considering a new naming scheme for -dev packages, > > where > > libada-foo-dev Provides: libada-foo-dev-HASH. > > source packages Build-Depend: libada-foo-dev > > bin

Re: virtual packages for Ada libraries

2023-07-15 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi Le sam. 15 juil. 2023, 10:05, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > Quoting Nicolas Boulenguez (2023-07-12 15:55:09) > > The Ada maintainers are considering a new naming scheme for -dev > packages, > > where > > libada-foo-dev Provides: libada-foo-dev-HASH. > > source packages Build-Depend: libada

Re: virtual packages for Ada libraries

2023-07-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Nicolas Boulenguez (2023-07-12 15:55:09) > The Ada maintainers are considering a new naming scheme for -dev packages, > where > libada-foo-dev Provides: libada-foo-dev-HASH. > source packages Build-Depend: libada-foo-dev > binary -dev packages Depend: libada-foo-dev-HASH > The intent

Re: virtual packages `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11'

2006-08-02 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
On August 1, 2006 at 1:04PM +0100, ian (at davenant.greenend.org.uk) wrote: > Tatsuya Kinoshita writes ("Re: virtual packages `pinentry' and > `pinentry-x11'"): > > Hmm, I have not yet understand the policy 3.6: > > > > | All packages should use

Re: virtual packages `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11'

2006-08-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Tatsuya Kinoshita writes ("Re: virtual packages `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11'"): > Hmm, I have not yet understand the policy 3.6: > > | All packages should use virtual package names where appropriate, and > | arrange to create new ones if necessa

Re: virtual packages `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11'

2006-07-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10730 March 1977, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > | All packages should use virtual package names where appropriate, and > | arrange to create new ones if necessary. They should not use virtual > | package names (except privately, amongst a cooperating group of > | packages) unl

Re: virtual packages `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11'

2006-07-29 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
On July 29, 2006 at 4:02PM +0200, joerg (at debian.org) wrote: > > At the moment, should `pinentry' be added to the list of virtual > > package names? If so, I'll file a wishlist bug against debian-policy. > > Nope. If it can work as the pinentry thing then provide it. Thats it for you. Hmm, I h

Re: virtual packages `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11'

2006-07-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10730 March 1977, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > At the moment, should `pinentry' be added to the list of virtual > package names? If so, I'll file a wishlist bug against debian-policy. Nope. If it can work as the pinentry thing then provide it. Thats it for you. -- bye Joerg I read the DUMP an

Re: virtual packages `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11'

2006-07-29 Thread Tatsuya Kinoshita
On July 29, 2006 at 1:18PM +0200, myon (at debian.org) wrote: > > Should `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11' be added to the list of > > virtual package names? > Policy: 3.6. Virtual packages > > All packages should use virtual package names where appropriate, and > arrange to create new ones

Re: virtual packages `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11'

2006-07-29 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Tatsuya Kinoshita 2006-07-29 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Should `pinentry' and `pinentry-x11' be added to the list of > virtual package names? > > I've discovered that the virtual package `pinentry' is provided by > pinentry-curses, pinentry-gtk, pinentry-gtk2 and pinentry-qt, and > the virtual pack

Re: virtual packages

1997-05-25 Thread Igor Grobman
On May 25, Christian Schwarz wrote > > Whether it depends, recommends or suggests dotfile-module, dselect would > > still > > be satisfied when just one module is selected, so when new modules appear > > they > > won't be selected automatically. This is much easier to do than make a > > depend

Re: virtual packages

1997-05-25 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sun, 25 May 1997, Igor Grobman wrote: > On May 25, Craig Sanders wrote > > > > On Sun, 25 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > > > I fully agree to what Manoj said. Since the dotfile generator will > > > probably get widely used by other packages we should put this package on > > > our li

Re: virtual packages

1997-05-25 Thread Igor Grobman
On May 25, Craig Sanders wrote > > On Sun, 25 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > I fully agree to what Manoj said. Since the dotfile generator will > > probably get widely used by other packages we should put this package on > > our list of "public virtual packages". > > > > Since I maint

Re: virtual packages

1997-05-25 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, 25 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > I fully agree to what Manoj said. Since the dotfile generator will > probably get widely used by other packages we should put this package on > our list of "public virtual packages". > > Since I maintain this list, I suggest the following addition

Re: virtual packages

1997-05-25 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sat, 24 May 1997, Igor Grobman wrote: > I've been packaging dotfile generator, and have a small question > related to virtual packages. The package will be multi-binary. It > consists of the main dotfile package, and a number of modules (currently 8). > I > want each of the modules to prov

Re: virtual packages

1997-05-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Oh, I think that it is not unreasonable to assume that other packages may depend on this if this becomes the ``official'' method to handle per user configuration in Debian, so I think that this definitely qualifies for a discussion here. Consider this a ``no objections from

Re: virtual packages and X11 vs. X11R

1995-09-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Murdock writes ("Re: virtual packages and X11 vs. X11R"): > Well, the X11R5 and X11R6 libraries weren't compatible, and it is > likely the X11R6 and X11R7 libraries won't be, either. In this > case, the packages will have to be updated. We don't want peopl

Re: virtual packages and X11 vs. X11R

1995-09-28 Thread Ian Murdock
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 16:15:50 PDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell) Would it make sense to further virtualize X11R5 and X11R6 and provide a virtual X11 package for use as a dependency? If we don't do this, what happens when X11R7 is released? Must all X11R6-dependent pack