On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 5:29 PM David Steele <ste...@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 3:48 PM Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> > wrote: > >> >> >> Putting aside the use of the alternatives system, why is a virtual >> package wanted? When would it be useful to be able to declare a >> dependency and have it satisfied by one of these implementations? >> >> > As an example, a future rev of an integrated todo.txt-gtd[1] would depend > on that virtual package. > > [1]: https://github.com/davesteele/todo.txt-gtd > > Somehow I don't have a copy or your reply. Imagine that tdtcleanup is a pre/post hook in todo.txt-base. An implementation of todo.txt is needed to make use of it.
