AUTHORITATIVE LIST OF VIRTUAL PACKAGE NAMES Below is an authoritative list of virtual package names currently in-use or proposed and not objected to. Please check the list below for things relevant to your packages. New packages MUST use virtual package names where appropriate (this includes making new ones - read on). Packages MUST NOT use virtual package names (except privately, amongst a cooperating group of packages) unless they have been agreed upon and appear in this list. The latest version of this file can be found in doc/package-developer/virtual-package-names-list.text on your local Debian FTP site. The procedure for updating the list is as follows: 1. Post to debian-devel saying what names you intend to use or what other changes you wish to make. 2. Wait a few days for comment. 3. Mail the maintainer of the virtual package name list (Warwick Harvey ) notifying him of the consensus reached (or your suggestions if noone objected). 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. 4. Go and use the new or changed names. Warwick. (based on earlier version by Ian J.) Now, the list: X Windows: ---------- X11R5 XFree86 R5, including base system (obsolete) xR5shlib XFree86 R5 shared library only X11R6 XFree86 R6, including base system xR6shlib XFree86 R6 shared library only xlibraries XFree86 R6 shared library or stub library xserver Any X server (used by other X packages) Miscellaneous: -------------- libc.so.4 An a.out shared C library, version 4.x.x. info-browser Something that can browser GNU Info files kernel-source Kernel source code kernel-headers Kernel header files (, ) kernel-image Kernel image ( vmlinuz, System.map, modules ) httpd Any HTTP server postscript-viewer Anything that can display Postscript files postscript-preview Any preprocessor that creates Postscript output www-browser Something that can browse html files awk Anything providing suitable /usr/bin/{awk,nawk} c-shell Anything providing a suitable /usr/bin/csh pdf-viewer Anything that can display PDF files pdf-preview Any preprocessor that creates PDF output compress Anything that provides a true BSD compress command emacs Anything that provides the emacs editor sgmls An SGML parser which produces output compatible with James Clark's sgmls and nsgmls parsers News and Mail: -------------- mail-transport-agent Mail transport agents (Smail, Sendmail, &c) mail-reader Mail user agents (Pine, Elm, mailx, &c) news-transport-system Local news system (INN, C News or B News) news-reader Any news reader (trn, tin, &c) inews /usr/bin/inews - local or remote news poster pgp A version of PGP (International or US) imap-client Any mail reader capable of accessing remote mail folders using the IMAP protocol (e.g. Pine) imap-server Any IMAP mail server Names of superseded packages Provided by the current ones: ---------------------------------------------------------- gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both Provided by Ghostscript (gs). Use gs. xpmR6 Provided by xpm. Use xpm. Change history: --------------- 22 Sep 1995 Ian Jackson Initial revision. 26 Mar 1996 Andrew Howell Added www-browser. 11 May 1996 Manoj Srivastava Added kernel-image, added new location of this file 19 May 1996 Warwick Harvey Took over maintenance of list, changed instructions for updating list 25 Jul 1996 Warwick Harvey Added awk as per Chris Fearnley's suggestion Added c-shell, which seemed to have dropped off at some stage 2 Aug 1996 Added pdf-{viewer,preview}, compress, emacs 5 Aug 1996 Added imap-{client,server} 8 Aug 1996 Added editor 20 Aug 1996 Added sgmls, removed metafont, dvilj, dvips 25 Nov 1996 Removed editor (should have done this a long time ago)