On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 23:39 -0700, 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.
I think that the list is only for "official" virtual packages. > 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. 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. That sounds like a good idea to me, especially for archive section descriptions, which are hard-coded in a number of packages: https://wiki.debian.org/NewArchiveSections -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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