Comment 2 for bug 384236

Done. I must admit that I do not really understand why "Provides" is needed:

- Conflicts/Replaces will handle the transition, uninstalling the two binary packages (python-gnomecanvas-dbg and python-gconf-dbg)

- if we look at their reverse depends:
$ apt-cache rdepends python-gnomecanvas-dbg python-gconf-dbg
python-gnomecanvas-dbg
Reverse Depends:
  python-gnomecanvas
  python-gnome2-dbg
python-gconf-dbg
Reverse Depends:
  python-gnome2-dbg
  python-gconf

So, all rdepends are in the same source package, removing the dependency. Is that only for apt-get/aptitude transitionning (that is to say, he might, depending on which order he process the packages, uninstalling old python-gnomecanvas because of missing dependency without seing that new python-gnomecanvas not depends on it?)

BTW, change available in the bzr branch.