Bug#338027: what to do with GUI common stuff

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:38:24PM -0600, Ming Hua wrote:
> So it seems vim shouldn't ship gvim.desktop.  It should be shipped in
> vim-gtk and/or vim-gnome instead.

This is the first complaint about the new structure of non conflicting
vim variants.  We were aware of it: vim-common ships some stuff which is
needed only by GUI-enabled variants.

We can ignore the issue (tagging as wontfix the Cc-ed bug), or
alternatively split an additional "vim-gui-common" package which will
contain gui related stuff on which only gui enabled variant will depend.
FWIW that stuff is:
- pixmaps (bitmap and svg)
- gui links (/usr/bin/gvim, /usr/bin/gview, ...)
- gui manpages (pairing with links above)
- .desktop file
- gui half of /usr/lib/mime/packages/vim-common

The latter solution seems to be more clean, but it requires an
additional amost empty package.

What do you think?

Cheers.

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