Duplicate package removal (was Re: sylpheed-gtk2 packaging problems (was Re: Bug#222728: sylpheed adoption))

[Ricardo Mones Lastra <mones@aic.uniovi.es>]

  Hello,

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:47:56 +0200
giskard <giskard@autistici.org> wrote:
[...]
> > > I have a problem, the sylpheed-gtk2  FAQ and po 
> > > are the same of sylpheed, I can do 3 thing:
> > > 
> > > 1) I can not include FAQ and po
> > > 2) Sylpheed-gtk2 can have a conflicts whit sylpheed
> > > 3) Make a sylpheed-doc.deb and give a "depends" for all sylpheed
> > > packages.
> > > 
> > > sylpheed-doc are +/- 1mb :) so we can do a packages I think :)  
> > 
> >   You don't need to package sylpheed-doc, Gustavo has packaged it
> > time ago (try "apt-cache show sylpheed-doc"). 
> 
> sorry, I want say a -common
[...]

  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.

  regards,

[1]
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-removing-pkgs
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  Ricardo Mones Lastra - mones@aic.uniovi.es
  Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad de Oviedo en Gijon
  33271 Asturias, SPAIN. - http://www.aic.uniovi.es/mones