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

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

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.

Cheers.

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