Hi again. :) * green <[email protected]> [2009-03-06 00:46:50 CET]: > The bug report was prompted like this: when I was trying out different irc > clients I wanted to see a list of them together. The first thing that came > to > mind was checking for an irc virtual package. There was one and I tried all > of > the text-mode clients there. I wasn't really satisfied with any of them and > noticed irssi somewhere so I searched for it. Obviously if it had been in > the > irc virtual package, then I would have found it more quickly.
Yes, I can understand that - unfortunately that's not the way it works. You might want to search for packages that have the tags protocol::irc and network::client set, either through the webinterface on <http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/cloud/>, or using the dctrl-tools: $> grep-available -sPackage -FTag protocol::irc -a network::client Package: zenirc Package: sic Package: ii Package: erc Package: rccp Package: lopster Package: ksirc Package: konversation Package: scrollz Package: irssi Package: sirc Package: kvirc Package: cgiirc Package: liece Package: tinyirc Package: smuxi-engine-irc Package: naim Package: riece Package: lostirc > The policy does say "All packages should use virtual package names > where appropriate, and arrange to create new ones if necessary." Yes, but personally I don't really consider it appropriate here. Virtual packages are appropriate where several packages provide the same functionality and other packages want to depend on that. > but 'irc' is not in the "authoritative list" and 'irc' has no rdepends, so if > you choose to leave irssi 'provides' as it is, I will accept that. Historically a Provides might have been the best approach to it, bit now that debtags are in place they are a much better and finer approach to the issue. Additionally, "irc" is quite illnamed anyway, it's strange that it should list only clients, not servers. Thanks. :) Rhonda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
