Bug#791589: musescore-soundfont-gm: Many muse soundfonts exist. Consider making virtual.

Jack Underwood juichenieder-debbie at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jul 7 13:33:33 UTC 2015


> In general, yes. Though, you do not simply turn an existing binary

> package into a virtual package, so I guess you mean a meta-package here
> (which it pretty much already is). And in the specific case of
> musescore, there are only two packages in Debian that come into
> question, so a simple "Depends: a | b" would already suffice. To
> introduce a virtual package, you would have to re-upload all providing
> packages with a "Provides: foo" stanza, etc. But I am getting off-topic
> now.


Okay, I don't know anything about packaging, so whatever you say ;).


Best,
Jack



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