Control: tag -1 patch Hi!
On Wed, 2021-12-08 at 20:39:52 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Package: sqop > Version: 0.22.2-2 > Severity: wishlist > One of the main advantages of the SOP CLI is that it is a standardized > interface, which means having to hardcode specific implementations in > code kind of defeats the point of that interface. It would be nice to > be able to by default just use «sop» and use that interface behind > an alternative (in the dpkg alternatives system), then the local admin > can select any of the existing implementations. I'm not sure how you'd > want to decide on the priority of the alternatives though, perhaps at > least by level of compliance (although I don't mind greatly TBH :)? I've implemented a proposal for this in the attached patch. It also adds a «sop» virtual package (or at least pretends to, did not run any debcargo command) so that other packages can depend on any implementation of the interface. I initially included alternatives also for the completion but I don't think they support the «sop» name anyway (at least the bash and fish ones), and I don't think they can act in a polymorphic way depending on the file they have been loaded from either. The currently proposed patch would not make it possible to easily denote a default implementation though, so perhaps you'd prefer two sets of virtual packages, one for the current default, and one for any implementation. Or another option could be to introduce a real «sop» package (which then could provide its own command completion files too :), perhaps the spec, etc, and depend first on the preferred implementation and the virtual package for any sop implementation such as «sqop | sop-impl» or whatever. The drawback with the real package approach is that it requires this artificial metapackage. I think this would also deserve filing a request for an addition to the Debian policy virtual-package list for coordination with other potential SOP implementations, once the layout is settled. Thanks, Guillem
diff -Nru rust-sequoia-sop-0.27.0/debian/debcargo.toml rust-sequoia-sop-0.27.0/debian/debcargo.toml --- rust-sequoia-sop-0.27.0/debian/debcargo.toml 2022-07-07 23:22:50.000000000 +0200 +++ rust-sequoia-sop-0.27.0/debian/debcargo.toml 2022-07-20 01:58:54.000000000 +0200 @@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ [packages.bin] section = "utils" +provides = ["sop"] diff -Nru rust-sequoia-sop-0.27.0/debian/sqop.alternatives rust-sequoia-sop-0.27.0/debian/sqop.alternatives --- rust-sequoia-sop-0.27.0/debian/sqop.alternatives 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ rust-sequoia-sop-0.27.0/debian/sqop.alternatives 2022-07-20 02:00:49.000000000 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Name: sop +Link: /usr/bin/sop +Alternative: /usr/bin/sqop +Dependents: + /usr/share/man/man1/sop-armor.1.gz sop-armor.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/sqop-armor.1.gz + /usr/share/man/man1/sop-dearmor.1.gz sop-dearmor.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/sqop-dearmor.1.gz + /usr/share/man/man1/sop-decrypt.1.gz sop-decrypt.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/sqop-decrypt.1.gz + /usr/share/man/man1/sop-encrypt.1.gz sop-encrypt.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/sqop-encrypt.1.gz + /usr/share/man/man1/sop-extract-cert.1.gz sop-extract-cert.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/sqop-extract-cert.1.gz + /usr/share/man/man1/sop-generate-key.1.gz sop-generate-key.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/sqop-generate-key.1.gz + /usr/share/man/man1/sop-sign.1.gz sop-sign.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/sqop-sign.1.gz + /usr/share/man/man1/sop-verify.1.gz sop-verify.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/sqop-verify.1.gz + /usr/share/man/man1/sop-version.1.gz sop-version.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/sqop-version.1.gz + /usr/share/man/man1/sop.1.gz sop.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/sqop.1.gz +Priority: 100
