Package: debian-policy Severity: minor Hello,
I just stumbled upon the official list [1] of virtual packages in Debian and was surprised by the presence of one called "mp3-encoder". This virtual package seems to be provided by only one real package, "opencubicplayer", and I doubt that this is actually a real mp3-encoder. On the other hand, the only mp3-encoder that we actually have in Debian since a long time is "lame" and this package does not even provide the virtual "mp3-encoder" package. So there is something wrong either way. Since this seems not to have attracted anyone's attention before, I suggest to simply remove the virtual package "mp3-encoders" from this list. Packages should probably better directly depend on "lame" instead. The virtual package "mp3-decoder" should also be re-considered. While it is already provided by a handful of packages (mpg123, mpg321, vlc[-nox] and said opencubicplayer), it is obviously ignored by the majority of media players in Debian and noone seems to object. Cheers, Fabian [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (901, 'testing'), (501, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120411151619.21037.90812.reportbug@vfrodo
