[Pkg-freedict-devel] Bug#413353: debian-policy: New virtual package: dict-freedict

[Russ Allbery]

Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> writes:
> Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats at vega.ocn.ne.jp> writes:
>> kebil (at kaunas.init.lt) wrote:

>>> I recommend to add the virtual package "dict-freedict" to the virtual
>>> package list. When I adopted the orphaned 'freedict' debian package, I
>>> have replaced the 'dict-freedict' meta package with the 'dict-freedict'
>>> virtual package (as was suggested in #205417). Now the package, which
>>> requires at least one dictionary may depend on this virtual package,
>>> and user not need to to install all dictionaries. So, this virtual
>>> package actually exists since 14 Aug 2005. See:
>>> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/virtual/dict-freedict
>>>
>>> Now the dict-servers (dictd, serpento) and dict-clients (dict, kdict,
>>> opendict, ...) may to add this virtual package to the Recommends or
>>> Suggests fields in the debian/control files (as it is in the package
>>> 'latrine' a long time since).
>>>
>>> I propose to include the such entry to the virtual package list:
>>>
>>> dict-freedict - a FreeDict dictionary, formatted for the dictionary
>>>                 server and client which uses the DICT Protocol.

>> This virtual package is privately, amongst a cooperating group of
>> packages, so adding it to the virtual package list is unnecessary,
>> I think.

> I think the discussion on this bug indicated that this wasn't required
> (particularly since we also now have dictd-dictionary as a virtual
> package), and this virtual package doesn't appear to be in use currently
> in the archive.  I'm therefore marking this bug as rejected, but it will
> stay open for some time in case my understanding is incorrect and this
> is still an issue that we should deal with.

There has been no further discussion of this, so I'm now closing it.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>