Bug#671876: Please have gnuplot-x11 and gnuplot-qt Provides: gnuplot-nox

[Vincent Fourmond]

Package: src:gnuplot
Version: 4.6.0-7
Severity: important

  Hello,

  Recently, several of my packages that rely on any variant of gnuplot
to be available became uninstallable because of the conflicts between
the different gnuplot versions. Of course, I could update all my
packages to have them depend on gnuplot-nox | gnuplot-x11 |
gnuplot-qt, but that has the drawback of being fragile should gnuplot
provide another backend in the future.

  Instead, here is what I propose: what about having all gnuplot
backends Provides: gnuplot-nox ? That way, packages can rely on
gnuplot-nox as being "minimal gnuplot functionalities" that should be
available in all backends.

  What do you think about it ?

  Regards,

        Vincent

PS: I hesitated to set the severity to RC, as it does break other
packages (at least gitstats and gnuplot-mode, as far as I'm
concerned). It would be great if this could be fixed before the
current gnuplot goes into testing.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash