2 AUTHORITATIVE LIST OF VIRTUAL PACKAGE NAMES
7 Below is an authoritative list of virtual package names currently
8 in-use or proposed and not objected to. Please check the list below
9 for things relevant to your packages.
11 New packages MUST use virtual package names where appropriate (this
12 includes making new ones - read on).
14 Packages MUST NOT use virtual package names (except privately, amongst
15 a cooperating group of packages) unless they have been agreed upon and
18 The latest version of this file can be found in
19 doc/package-developer/virtual-package-names-list.text
20 on your local Debian FTP site.
22 The procedure for updating the list is as follows:
24 1. Post to debian-devel saying what names you intend to use or what
25 other changes you wish to make.
27 2. Wait a few days for comment.
29 3. Mail the maintainer of the virtual package name list (Christian
30 Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>) notifying him of the consensus reached (or
31 your suggestions if noone objected). Please include a proposed brief
32 description of the new virtual name(s) for the list. The list
33 maintainer will then post the new list to debian-devel and upload it
36 4. Go and use the new or changed names.
39 (based on earlier version by Warwick and Ian Jackson)
46 xserver Any X server (used by other X packages)
50 libc.so.4 An a.out shared C library, version 4.x.x.
51 info-browser Something that can browser GNU Info files
52 kernel-source Kernel source code
53 kernel-headers Kernel header files (<linux/*.h>, <asm/*.h>)
54 kernel-image Kernel image (vmlinuz, System.map, modules)
56 postscript-viewer Anything that can display Postscript files
57 postscript-preview Any preprocessor that creates Postscript output
58 www-browser Something that can browse html files
59 awk Anything providing suitable /usr/bin/{awk,nawk}
60 c-shell Anything providing a suitable /usr/bin/csh
61 pdf-viewer Anything that can display PDF files
62 pdf-preview Any preprocessor that creates PDF output
63 wordlist Anything that provides /usr/dict/words
64 dotfile-module Anything that provides a module for the
66 ups-monitor Anything that is capable of controlling an UPS
67 tclsh Anything that provides /usr/bin/tclsh
68 wish Anything that provides /usr/bin/wish
69 c-compiler Anything providing a C compiler
70 fortran77-compiler Anything providing a Fortran77 compiler
71 lambdamoo-core A lambdamoo-compatible datebase package
72 lambdamoo-server Anything running a moo using a lambdamoo-core
73 libc-dev Anything that provides header and object files
75 emacsen Anything providing the GNU emacs or a compatible
80 mail-transport-agent Mail transport agents (Smail, Sendmail, &c)
81 mail-reader Mail user agents (Pine, Elm, mailx, &c)
82 news-transport-system Local news system (INN, C News or B News)
83 news-reader Any news reader (trn, tin, &c)
84 pgp A version of PGP (International or US)
85 imap-client Any mail reader capable of accessing remote mail
86 folders using the IMAP protocol (e.g. Pine)
87 imap-server Any IMAP mail server
89 Old and obsolete virtual package names
90 --------------------------------------
91 Note, that no other package then the ones listed here should use
92 these virtual package names.
94 X11R5 provided by xcompat for compatibility reasons
104 22 Sep 1995 Initial revision.
107 26 Mar 1996 Added www-browser.
110 11 May 1996 Added kernel-image, added new location of this file
113 19 May 1996 Took over maintenance of list, changed instructions for
115 25 Jul 1996 Added awk as per Chris Fearnley's suggestion
116 Added c-shell, which seemed to have dropped off at some stage
117 2 Aug 1996 Added pdf-{viewer,preview}, compress, emacs
118 5 Aug 1996 Added imap-{client,server}
119 8 Aug 1996 Added editor
120 20 Aug 1996 Added sgmls, removed metafont, dvilj, dvips
121 25 Nov 1996 Removed editor (should have done this a long time ago)
124 29 Apr 1997 New maintainer of this list
125 5 May 1997 Added wordlist
126 29 May 1997 Added dotfile-module, ups-monitor, tcl-interpreter,
128 21 Jun 1997 Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
129 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
130 Added new section about obsolete names
131 1 Sep 1997 Renamed `tcl/tk-interpreter' to `tclsh/wish'
132 21 Oct 1997 Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
134 29 Jan 1998 Added libc-dev, emacsen
135 14 Apr 1998 Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'