Bug#771759: allow installation besides discount

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Antoine Beaupré (2014-12-02 05:12:16)
> 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.

This sounds like a perfect use of alternatives.

None of those packages provide the default markdown reference 
implementation, so probably should both provide a lower rate 
alternative, with the reference implementation providing the highest 
one.


 - Jonas

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