Bug#2624: textutils needs to break fmt-related files out separately

[david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)]

> My understanding is that, in order to avoid this, it is necessary
> for these files to be broken out of the textutils binary package
> into a separate binary package, so that other packages (e.g. the
> elvis fmt package) installing alternate implementations of the
> fmt(1) program may declare a conflict with this new package.

IMO, this is getting much too granular.  Why can't the elvis package
either not install fmt at all and depend on the one in textutils or
simply use dpkg-divert to avoid conflicting with the one in textutils?

David
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