Bug#775483: hexen: verify that the demo works in some packaged engine, and re-enable

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Tue Mar 31 09:52:47 UTC 2015


On 31/03/15 09:43, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> Shouldn't heretic-engine & hexen-engine be added to the official list
> of virtual packages too ?
> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt

Policy says:

"""
They should not use virtual package names (except privately, amongst a
cooperating group of packages) unless they have been agreed upon and
appear in the list of virtual package names.
"""

game-data-packager and the Doom engines in Debian are a cooperating
group of packages, AIUI.

(Or if they don't count as a group of cooperating packages, then in
practice that rule is not followed - my guess would be that a majority
of virtual packages in Debian are not on that list.)

    S



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