Hi Jérémy, Thank you for taking the time to look at it, and for the candid feedback.
You are right that the package has no user base yet, and I understand the concern about maintainers who disappear after the first upload. I'll take the usual route: publish Clipdeck on extensions.gnome.org first, maintain it there, and only come back to Debian once it has real users and a track record. On paste simulation, one clarification: Clipdeck never types characters. When an item is chosen it puts it back on the clipboard and, optionally, sends a single Ctrl+V (Ctrl+Shift+V in terminals). I agree that is still a workaround, so the next release makes it opt-in: by default, choosing an item will only copy it. Thanks also for the pointer to copyous and ts-for-gir; I'll follow that work. Best regards, On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 2:46 AM Jérémy Lal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Le sam. 17 oct. 2026 à 10:15, Subhadip Jana <[email protected]> a > écrit : > >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Subhadip Jana <[email protected]> >> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] >> >> * Package name : gnome-shell-extension-clipdeck >> Version : 1.0.0 >> Upstream Contact: Subhadip Jana <[email protected]> >> * URL : https://github.com/JD-Tensor/clipdeck >> * License : GPL-2+ >> Programming Lang: JavaScript >> Description : clipboard history in the GNOME Shell top bar >> >> Clipdeck adds a clipboard icon to the GNOME Shell top bar. Clicking it >> shows a history of everything recently copied or cut: text, links, >> images, screenshots and files (including videos, shown with >> thumbnails). Choosing an item puts it back on the clipboard and pastes >> it into the focused window. The history can be searched, and items can >> be pinned or removed. >> >> Compared with GPaste, which is already in Debian, Clipdeck keeps >> images and copied files in its history with thumbnails, and needs no >> separate daemon or configuration. I am the upstream author and will >> maintain the package; I am looking for a sponsor. >> > > Hi, > > I am the main maintainer of GPaste, and I've always been looking up for > alternatives. > The last one that caught my attention was the very popular > https://github.com/boerdereinar/copyous > which depends indirectly on https://github.com/gjsify/ts-for-gir, which > is something > we are going to need in Debian Gnome, but it requires quite some work > before we get there. > > In comparison, your package isn't popular, is plain javascript code, has > almost no deps (both are not showstoppers). > It looks like it's using event keys to simulate user input (ctrl-v to > paste, and keyboard events to type characters): that's too much of a hack > to me. > Also I'm concerned that it seems you are directly targeting Debian: there > is no clipdeck extension on https://extensions.gnome.org/ ? > > In my experience, software without a user base is a bad candidate to be a > Debian package. > Last time I indulged a motivated developer (a good one, it was one of the > creators of zig), he abandoned everything he managed to get uploaded. > A good formation for him, a lot of time wasted for me and for Debian. I > hope you understand the comparison. > > Jérémy > > >
