Package: suckless-tools
Version: 46-1
Severity: serious
Control: tags -1 patch
Control: affects -1 theli swarp cpl-plugin-visir
Dear maintainer,
suckless-tools has the following packages listed as "Provides":
dmenu, lsw, slock, sprop, sselp, ssid, swarp, tabbed, wmname, xssstate
"swarp" however is (since 2013) a complete different package, with
different uses: it provides a tool to process astronomical images. As
the file name of the executable conflicts between the two packages, the
executable in the swarp package is not called /usr/bin/SWarp (the
original spelling of the astronomical tool).
However, the binary package is called "swarp", and the "Provides" of
suckless-tools conflicts with this. This runs into a problem when one
has "swarp" as a dependency, which is the case for theli and
cpl-plugin-visir. If suckless-tools was installed before theli or
cpl-plugin-visir are installed, the required "swarp" package is not
going to be installed, resulting in unusable packages. This is the
reason I made this bug RC.
Could you please remove the "swarp" provides from suckless-tools? In
Debian, the "swarp" Provides of suckless-tools is not used at all (and
would also make problems because of this).
For convenience, a patch is applied.
Best regards
Ole
From 3344c9297ebd4009efab61b28a1db60eb0f86997 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ole Streicher <oleb...@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2022 16:30:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Don't provide "swarp"
This is in conflict with the "swarp" package.
---
debian/control | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 81ded25..56f24ce 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Depends:
${shlibs:Depends},
libcap2-bin [linux-any],
Suggests: dwm, stterm, surf
-Provides: dmenu, lsw, slock, sprop, sselp, ssid, swarp, tabbed, wmname, xssstate
+Provides: dmenu, lsw, slock, sprop, sselp, ssid, tabbed, wmname, xssstate
Description: simple commands for minimalistic window managers
This package provides simple commands designed to be used with a minimalistic
window manager like dwm but they can be useful in scripts regardless of the
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2.34.1
