Bug#328310: gedit-common: problems with alternatives

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 15 septembre 2005 à 10:09 +0200, Loïc Minier a écrit :
>  - is it ok not to comply with policy when this never happens in
>    concrete usecases?  (here, the use is never going to install
>    gedit-common without gedit)

I believe this isn't OK.

>  On my side, I'm looking at being policy compliant again, but it's not
>  going to be funny (especially because of downgrades :-/).

You only have to make the new gedit package conflict with the current
gedit-common. As alternatives are removed in the prerm, this is OK.
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