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Author Re: Duplicate package removal (was Re: sylpheed-gtk2 packaging problems (was Re: Bug#
Francesco P. Lovergine

2004-06-15, 5:55 pm

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:57:08PM +0200, Ricardo Mones Lastra wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:47:56 +0200
> giskard <giskard@autistici.org> wrote:
> [...]
> [...]
>
> Despite of this conversation, I've found you have packaged a new
> sylpheed-gtk2-doc from your sylpheed-gtk2 sources instead of depending
> on the existing sylpheed-doc.
>
> As the contents of both packages are the same, there is no point
> on having both in Debian, so I'd suggest you to file a removal bug
> against your package, see Developers Reference [1] for how to do it.
>


If the two packages have the same contents a dummy package is probably
the better thing now. That program is clearly a fork of sylpheed, doc
could change in a possibly near future. A symlink to
/usr/share/doc/sylpheed-doc could probably also be appropriate.

--
Francesco P. Lovergine


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