severity 535037 serious thanks I ran into this bug as well and this is definitly *not* a wishlist bug. (And while the real problem is solved, it can easily be worked around by using "Conflicts").
Please see the following paragraph from policy (emphasis mine):
All packages which supply an instance of a common command name (or, in
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general, filename) should generally use update-alternatives, so that they
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may be installed together. If update-alternatives is not used, then each
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package *must* use Conflicts to ensure that other packages are de-installed.
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(In this case, it may be appropriate to specify a conflict against earlier
versions of something that previously did not use update-alternatives;
this is an exception to the usual rule that versioned conflicts should be
avoided.)
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