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

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at debian.org> [2007.10.23.1328 +0200]:
> 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 don't know, but I seem to recall this being standard practice to
supersede a package together with Replaces/Conflicts. I suppose this
might be material for debian-devel...

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