The irc and irssi alternatives.

[Birzan George Cristian <ymir@wolfheart.ro>]

Hello, I was poking around epic4 the other day and I noticed that, on my
system [1], it and ircII are the only two IRC clients that use the irc
alternative. Now, I've been looking at both the Policy and at some of
the other alternatives on my system and found two rather different
'reasonings' for using alternatives.
The Policy states that "When several packages all provide different
versions of the same program or file (...)". On the other hand,
x-window-manager, or x-terminal-emulator and a lot of other
alternatives, don't provide different versions of the same program, but
different programs with the same function.
Getting back to the irc alternative, does that mean that all IRC clients
should be registering as an alternative there? Or that only epic(3),
epic4 and ircii should? (I'd go with the former, myself, but mass-filing
without asking first is a Bad Thing [2])

Secondly, irssi declares an alternative itself, but still, irssi-text
conflicts with irssi-snapshot, even though the latter is supposed to be
a build of the CVS version, thus a different version, so, it should've
been an alternative.

Yes, the issues are a bit unrelated and trivial, but still issues.

[1] - I've got irssi-snapshot, epic, epic4, ircii, bitchx and xchat
installed.

[2] - I don't want my name to be associated, by Google, with "fscking
idiot". :-)