also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.10.23.1328 +0200]: > Uhm, fact is: "gvim" is not also a real binary package, but only a > virtual one. On the contrary "vim" is a real binary package, what would > happen to {autobuilders, apt-get, aptitude, ...} in the weird case that > a provided package is also a real one?
I don't know, but I seem to recall this being standard practice to supersede a package together with Replaces/Conflicts. I suppose this might be material for debian-devel... -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems the best way to accelerate a computer running windoze is at 9.81 ms^-2
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