ronin2@bellatlantic.net wrote: > It may resolve itself when sylpheed moves into testing, but it's still a > bug. > > Installing a doc package shouldn't cause removal of a binary package, > even if the binary package an older version. Does Debian policy say anything about this? If not, then the maintainer will be within his rights to simply reject the bug report. Are you objecting to the idea that a doc package and a binary package can conflict simply because the documentation is for a different version of the program? Or are you suggesting that apt should simply refuse to install a doc package when a conflicting binary package is already installed? In the latter case, your complaint is really with apt, not with sylpheed or sylpheed-doc. I don't know if apt treats doc packages differently from binary ones, and I don't see why it should. It seems like needless complexity in a program that is quite complex enough already. Craig
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