On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 06:14:28PM +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hello! > > Paul noted to me that the file > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt > does not list mysql-virtual-* packages. > > I suggest you to add it there. > > This virtual package naming scheme has been agreed on inside the > pkg-mysql-maint team (which is accepted according to > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-virtual_pkg). > > This has been announced by James Page in August 2014: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/08/msg00016.html > There were no objections. It has also been announced in MDN#37: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg00015.html > > The policy is documented at > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL/virtual-mysql-server and followed > by all MariaDB, MySQL, Percona and Mysql-wsrep packages out there, and > many many "consuming" packages. > > It would be good that the file > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/virtual-package-names-list.txt > also mentioned it.
Hello Otto, Could you provide the list of the new virtual packages together with their description ? The page you link provide the list but no description. Cheers, Bill.
