AUTHORITATIVE LIST OF VIRTUAL PACKAGE NAMES
- July 2007
+ February 2012
Below is an authoritative list of virtual package names currently
3. Mail the maintainer of the virtual package name list (which is the
Debian Policy list <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>) notifying them
of the consensus reached (or your suggestions if noone objected).
- Please update the bug report at the same time (retitling the bug to
- [ACCEPTED] ....
+ Please update the bug report at the same time.
Please include a proposed brief description of the new virtual name(s)
- for the list. The list maintainer will then post the new list to
- debian-devel and upload it to the FTP site.
+ for the list. The list maintainer will then include the updated list
+ in the next release of Policy.
4. Go and use the new or changed names.
other applications
time-daemon anything that serves as a time daemon
ups-monitor anything that is capable of controlling an UPS
+ cron-daemon Any cron daemon that correctly follows policy
+ requirements
Documentation
-------------
ftp-server a FTP server
httpd a HTTP server
httpd-cgi A CGI capable HTTP server
+ httpd-wsgi A WSGI capable HTTP server
ident-server an identd daemon
- inetd-superserver an inetd server
+ inet-superserver an inetd server
lambdamoo-core a lambdamoo-compatible database package
lambdamoo-server anything running a moo using a lambdamoo-core
radius-server a RADIUS server for acct/auth
imap-server an IMAP mail server
mail-reader a mail user agent (e.g. Pine, Elm, mailx, &c)
mail-transport-agent a mail transport agent (e.g. Smail, Sendmail, &c)
+ mailx a /usr/bin/mailx binary that provides at least
+ the POSIX mailx interface (*)
news-reader a news reader (e.g. trn, tin, &c)
news-transport-system a local news system (e.g. INN, C News or B News)
pgp a version of PGP (International or US)
xserver an X server that (directly or indirectly) manages
physical input and display hardware
+Fonts
+-----
+ fonts-japanese-gothic Gothic-style Japanese font
+ fonts-japanese-mincho Mincho-style Japanese font
+
Graphics and MultiMedia
-----------------------
audio-mixer a utility to control the input and output levels
of a sound card, with a tty interface
x-audio-mixer a utility to control the input and output levels
of a sound card, X Window System interface
- mp3-encoder an MP3 encoder package
- mp3-decoder an MP3 decoder package
mpd-client a client that can control the Music Player Daemon
pdf-preview a preprocessor that creates PDF output
pdf-viewer anything that can display PDF files
Java and virtual machines
-------------------------
- java-compiler a java compiler, for Java version 1
- java2-compiler a java compiler, for Java version 2
- java-virtual-machine a JAVA virtual machine
- java1-runtime a Java runtime environment, Java version 1
- java2-runtime a Java runtime environment, Java version 2
+ java5-runtime a Java runtime environment, Java version 5
+ java6-runtime a Java runtime environment, Java version 6
+ java7-runtime a Java runtime environment, Java version 7
+ java8-runtime a Java runtime environment, Java version 8
+ java9-runtime a Java runtime environment, Java version 9
+ java5-runtime-headless a non-graphical Java runtime environment, Java ver. 5
+ java6-runtime-headless a non-graphical Java runtime environment, Java ver. 6
+ java7-runtime-headless a non-graphical Java runtime environment, Java ver. 7
+ java8-runtime-headless a non-graphical Java runtime environment, Java ver. 8
+ java9-runtime-headless a non-graphical Java runtime environment, Java ver. 9
Scheme and interpreters
-------------------------
scheme-srfi-55 Scheme interpreter accepting the SRFI 55 language
extension
+Games and Game-related
+----------------------
+ doom-engine An executable Doom engine
+ boom-engine An executable Doom engine supporting the 'boom'
+ feature-set
+ doom-wad The data component of a Doom game, compatible with
+ the original Doom engine
+ boom-wad The data component of a Doom game, using features
+ from the "boom" engine family
+
Old and obsolete virtual package names
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Note, that no other package then the ones listed here should use
Added lzh-archiver
Russ Allbery:
- 4 Jul 2007 Added dictd-dictionary
+ 8 Jul 2007 Added dictd-dictionary
+ Rename inetd-superserver to inet-superserver
+ 2 Dec 2007 Added ttf-japanese-gothic
+ Added ttf-japanese-mincho
+
+Manoj Srivastava:
+ 21 Nov 2009 (Re)Added cron-daemon
+
+Russ Allbery:
+ 27 Aug 2010 Added mailx
+
+Bill Allombert:
+ 22 Feb 2012 Rename ttf-japanese-gothic to fonts-japanese-gothic
+ Rename ttf-japanese-mincho to fonts-japanese-mincho
+ Removed java-compiler
+ Removed java2-compiler
+ Removed java-virtual-machine
+
+Charles Plessy:
+ 03 Aug 2013 Removed mp3-encoder
+ 17 Aug 2013 Removed mp3-decoder
+
+Bill Allombert:
+ 16 Jul 2014 Added java{5,6,7,8,9}-runtime{,-headless}
+ Removed java1-runtime, java2-runtime
+ 30 Jul 2014 Added httpd-wsgi