Hi, I'm an xdotool user (it's called from my .xsession on all my boxes with X) and the package maintainer of one of libxdo's reverse dependencies, keynav.
Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: […] > I don't know what the right thing to do is, frankly. I could support > either completely disabling the test suite (despite that seeming rather > wrong) or just dropping xdotool from wheezy, given how out-of-date the > candidate package is. Since keynav would have to go, too, I've looked at the popcon stats for both, keynav and xdotool. * xdotool has 2163 installations and 660 votes, roughly exponetially raising[1]. * keynav has 87 installations and 28 votes, slowly and linearly raising[2]. [1] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=xdotool [2] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=keynav So keynav is more or less not relevant with regards to a potential xdotool removal. But even as keynav maintainer and "just" an xdotool user, xdotool is the more important and useful tool for me, because it's for automating stuff (and hence mostly embedded in setups which would likely break without it) while keynav is more for cases where the mouse isn't (too) usable, either for technical or for accessibility reasons. For me xdotool 1:2.20100701.2961-3+deb7u2 (amd64) from TPU works fine in my daily usage. Given xdotool's not so small amounts in the popcon statistics[1], the fact that it seems to work fine[3] and only the testsuite in Wheezy (but not in Sid) seems to have issues[4], I suggest to disable the testsuite for Wheezy and leave xdotool in Wheezy. [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=xdotool;dist=testing [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697078#74 Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
