[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#645153: Bug#645152: fonts-ipaexfont-gothic: fonts-japanese-gothic is not registered as virtual package

Nobuhiro Iwamatsu iwamatsu at nigauri.org
Mon Jan 2 22:01:07 UTC 2012


Hi,

Why are these bugs closed?
Is it because an item is not "must" at a virtual package?

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

2012/1/2 Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 08:57:49 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
>
>> fonts-ipaexfont-gothic package provides fonts-japanese-gothic as
>> virtual package,
>> but this virtual package is not listed in virtual-package-names-list.txt.
>>
>> We must register fonts-japanese-gothic as virtual package.
>>     http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-virtual_pkg
>>
> That's a should, not a must, and excludes cooperating groups of
> packages.  Also what happened to discussing mass-bug filings on
> debian-devel?  Closing.
>
> Cheers,
> Julien



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