Bug#865720: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: hard-codes the list of virtual packages, mistake in recent update

[Paul Wise]

On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 23:39 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

> It's worth noting that registering a virtual package with Policy is
> optional if it is used among a cooperating set of packages, and there are
> numerous virtual packages in Debian that are not listed there.

I think that the list is only for "official" virtual packages.

> That said, if there's some desire for automated consumption of the list
> from the Policy package, I'd be happy to provide it in a machine-readable
> format.  I wonder if there would be some merit in building a separate
> binary package from the debian-policy source package that includes a few
> lists like that (archive sections also come to mind) in machine-readable
> formats in /usr/share somewhere.

That sounds like a good idea to me, especially for archive section
descriptions, which are hard-coded in a number of packages:

https://wiki.debian.org/NewArchiveSections

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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