Bug#447714: please provide vim by vim-* packages

James Vega jamessan at debian.org
Thu Nov 1 16:09:50 UTC 2007


On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:28:22PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:24:50PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> > Packages like vim-nox should really provide 'vim', shouldn't they?  If
> > you install vim-nox, you don't want 'vim' around, yet some packages,
> > like vim-vimoutliner and vim-latexsuite depend on vim|gvim. vim-gtk
> > provides gvim, so vim-nox should provide vim.
> 
> 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've observed the issue you mention in the past, but so far I've
> refrained to fix it for the above reason.

We could rename vim to vim-basic and then have all of the variants
Provide: vim.

James
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