AUTHORITATIVE LIST OF VIRTUAL PACKAGE NAMES
- December 2007
+ August 2010
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
+ cron-daemon Any cron daemon that correctly follows policy
+ requirements
Documentation
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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)
Fonts
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- ttf-japanese-gothic Gothic-style Japanese font
- ttf-japanese-mincho Mincho-style Japanese font
+ fonts-japanese-gothic Gothic-style Japanese font
+ fonts-japanese-mincho Mincho-style Japanese font
Graphics and MultiMedia
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Games and Game-related
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-
doom-engine An executable Doom engine
boom-engine An executable Doom engine supporting the 'boom'
feature-set
Manoj Srivastava:
21 Nov 2009 (Re)Added cron-daemon
+
+Russ Allbery:
+ 27 Aug 2010 Added mailx