Bug#771759: allow installation besides discount

[Antoine Beaupré]

Source: libtext-markdown-perl
Severity: wishlist

I wish it could be possible to install libtext-markdown-perl next to
discount. However, but discount conflicts with libtext-markdown-perl
because the latter installs a `markdown` binary, which is a little
surprising considering how it's "supposed" to be a perl library and is
mostly used as such in dependencies.

It seems to me the markdown binary could be easily split off into a
separate binary package, and that package could provide the `markdown`
dependency that packages that really need the binary could depend on,
which could then be provided by discount, pandoc, etc...

Otherwise an alternatives system may be implemented.

Thanks,

A.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash