On 04/30/2017 02:06 AM, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: > Package: python-requests > Version: 2.12.4-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > Python requests ships with a "security" extra that requires an enlarged > set of dependencies (with python-ndg-httpsclient being the current stone > in my metaphorical shoe). > > It would be awesome if there was a virtual package that I could depend > on that would include not just python-requests, but also all the extra > dependencies that the extra needs. > > > > > > Thoughts?
I guess you probably wanted to write "metapackage", which is a package with dependencies only without any other content. A virtual package is a package that never really exists, and which a few package have in the "Provides:" field. For example, the package nova-compute-hypervisor is a virtual package provided by nova-compute-{ironic,qemu,lxc,kvm}. That's IMO not what you wanted to ask for. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)