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global: add "virtual" packages for the analysis

Adrien Nader requested to merge adrien-n/armhf-time_t:virtual-packages into main

Some packages cannot be analyzed in a single pass because they are either too big or contain headers which cannot be included at the same time (e.g. one for server and one for client).

Virtual packages in the context of this script are package names which only reason to exist is to be able to do several passes over the same package but with different settings.

The approach is:

  • insert virtual packages and a marker for the end of the list of virtual packages,
  • store the analysis results for virtual packages in memory rather than on-disk,
  • upon encountering the end of list marker, look at the in-memory result and write the end result on disk.

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