gs gnu & aladdin: two packages?

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

I would like to get a few more views about my gs gnu/aladdin problem:

At the moment, I just have gs-3.53 (aladdin) and gs-2.62 (GNU), so
basically ONE pacakge, with two versions. This is because I reasoned like
this: If anyone can get hold of the gs-3.53 version (ftp or a from CD 
distributer with guts) there's no reason for him to want to install the GNU
version. The restrictions of aladdin are agaist distributing, not using.

As I'm using dpkg only (no dselect) I've never encountered any
problems: if I install gs-3.53, dpkg just (rightly) views this as upgrading
a package, and removes everything from gs-2.62, and installs everything
from gs-3.53. Same if you do it the other way around, except for a
warning message about downgreading.

On the other hand, I've had a disscussion with Dirk Eddelbuettel who
says "I'll have lots of bug reports if I don't seperate the two in
two packages". For example, dselect will not like it. Now I actually
cannot test this any more, as dselect simply doesn't run any more 
on my system. (see seperate mail).

Personally, I would think it's a dselect problem if it freaks out whenever
it sees two versions of the same package (this may cause problems when
users simply manually maintain a mirror of debian, or have for other reasons
old versions of packages hanging about).

I do realise, however, that I don't have very much experience yet with debian,
and would thus very much like other people's views.

Thanks,

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