[Pkg-pdns-maintainers] Proposal – Provides: authoritative-name-server, recursive-name-server

[Faidon Liambotis]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 09:01:09AM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>since we now have many DNS servers in Debian, I am proposing that the
>authoritative name server packages (bind9, pdns-server, knot, nsd,
>gdnsd) add
>
>Provides: authoritative-name-server and
>
>and unbound + bind9 + pdns-resolver add:
>
>Provides: recursive-name-server
>
>Does that sound like a good idea to you all?

I wouldn't mind, but what exactly are you trying to achieve with this?  
Do you expect other packages to e.g. Depends: authoritative-name-server?  
How would that work?

Also note that our agreement doesn't suffice: what you're proposing is 
called a "virtual package" and there's a well defined process for that 
that includes a public discussion & consensus in debian-devel@ and a 
wishlist bug against the debian-policy package.

Best regards,
Faidon
(gdnsd maintainer)