(debian-policy.info)Packages providing an X server

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11.8.2 Packages providing an X server
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Packages that provide an X server that, directly or indirectly,
communicates with real input and display hardware should declare in
their ‘Provides’ control field that they provide the virtual package
‘xserver’.  (1)

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   (1) This implements current practice, and provides an actual policy
for usage of the ‘xserver’ virtual package which appears in the virtual
packages list.  In a nutshell, X servers that interface directly with
the display and input hardware or via another subsystem (e.g., GGI)
should provide ‘xserver’.  Things like ‘Xvfb’, ‘Xnest’, and ‘Xprt’
should not.