Re: Deprecation of /etc/alternatives? (Re: Reaction to potential PGP schism)

2023-12-23 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sat, 23 Dec 2023 at 18:43, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > > On 22/12/23 00:40, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > If you're asking about using /etc/alternatives or something like that to > > provide some sort of generic swapping capability, or a dpkg Provides:, > > such that /usr/bin/gpg on some systems

Re: Deprecation of /etc/alternatives? (Re: Reaction to potential PGP schism)

2023-12-23 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 17086 March 1977, Gioele Barabucci wrote: While we are on the topic of alternatives, I hope to see the maintscript-based /etc/alternatives paradigm deprecated in favor of the package-based X-is-X paradigm introduced by `python-is-python3`. In this scenario gnupg will ship gpg as /usr/bin/

Bug#1059361: ITP: chr -- terminal-based text editor

2023-12-23 Thread Christoph Hueffelmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: 'Christoph Hueffelmann' X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, textsh...@uchuujin.de *Package Name : chr Version : 0.1.75 Upstream Author : Christoph Hueffelmann , Martin Hostettler *URL : https://github.com/istoph/editor *License : BSL-1.0 *De

Deprecation of /etc/alternatives? (Re: Reaction to potential PGP schism)

2023-12-23 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 22/12/23 00:40, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: If you're asking about using /etc/alternatives or something like that to provide some sort of generic swapping capability, or a dpkg Provides:, such that /usr/bin/gpg on some systems would point toward the "chameleon", i would want to see some signifi

Re: /usr-move: Do we support upgrades without apt?

2023-12-23 Thread Richard Lewis
Helmut Grohne writes: > I incline to agreeing with the scenario you depict. This can reasonably > happen. I also think that David made a good case for it being unlikely > to manage oneself into the buggy situation that way. And then the > consequence is that you lost some possibly important files

Bug#1059355: ITP: sway-contrib -- A collection of user-contributed scripts for sway

2023-12-23 Thread Birger Schacht
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Birger Schacht X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, bir...@debian.org * Package name: sway-contrib Version : no version tag yet Upstream Contact: Sungjoon Moon * URL : https://github.com/OctopusET/sway-contrib * License