Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> writes: > I think it is a problem extending to all virtual packages, and I would > like to see a more general solution which is applicable to all. It > might be worth revisiting past discussion, for example this thread: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg01281.html > > (I've CCd -devel and -policy because it's a general issue which should > ideally be in policy) > > The above discussion proposed a solution like default-mta. At the time, > I also wrote a sample "virtual-default" package which generated these > -defaults packages for all virtual packages in the archive. At the time > I held off actually implementing this because Anthony Towns said he was > implementing a better method in dpkg itself. However, I've not seen any > more about this other than that single time, and if mta-defaults is being > created it looks like we are still looking for a solution.
I think the default-* idea is good. The thread above mentions both 'inet-superserver' and 'mail-transport-agent-default'. May I suggest that we use default-* for this? It helps to improve the namespace. Or even debian-default-* to be more clear that this is debian specific. /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
