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

[Dominique Dumont]

On Saturday, 24 June 2017 09:39:54 CEST Russ Allbery wrote:
> These days, I normally use JSON for that sort of thing.  Does that seem
> reasonable, or is there a reason to use some other format instead?

At the risk of showing my Perl background, I tend to dislike JSON because of 
the syntax restrictions (no comment, no trailing comma, can't use single 
quote)

I find YAML easier to write by hand.

That, YAML or JSON may be overkill to store only a list of package names.

In any case, there's a  Perl for whatever format you choose, so it's up to 
you.

HTH

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