Hardy - vdr-plugin-burn cannot install

[Derek Broughton]

Geoff Horn wrote:

> Does anybody know how to get vdr-plugin-burn installed. It seems strange
> that the package exists but yet cannot be installed because of missing
> packages!
> 
> What does virtual package mean in this context? Does it means someone is
> working on it?

"virtual" often means "there must be a package but I can't find it"! 
Strictly, a virtual package is something that is "provides" by another
package.  

$ apt-cache madison vdr-plugin-burn mkisofs vdr-genindex  vdrsync projectx
vdr-plugin-burn | 0.1.0~pre21-20ubuntu3 | http://archive.ubuntu.com
hardy/universe Packages
   mkisofs | 9:1.1.2-1ubuntu1 | http://bella feisty/main Packages
   mkisofs |  9:1.1.2-1 | http://bella feisty/main Packages

Interesting.  The links to http://bella just mean I could only find it in my
local package cache ("feisty" is a red herring - that's just what I called
the apt-move cache when I created it - by now it contains gutsy and hardy
packages).  I would guess mkisofs must have been superceded (checking
packages.ubuntu.com says, yes, it's provided by genisoimage, now - so
vdr-plugin-burn should depend on genisoimage).  You could fix that
dependency simply by installing genisoimage.

vdr-genindex doesn't exist in Ubuntu until Intrepid. The others don't even
exist.  
-- 
derek