Dear all, First of all thank you all the fine people who have contributed to packaging and maintaining the whole suit of apt, aptitude, apt-get, dpkg low and high-level variety of tools in Debian for system administration and making good choices.
Please CC me if you any thoughts as although I'm subscribed to debian-devel I have opted out of receiving mails due to the high-volume nature of the mailing list. Now about a year back, I had proposed changing paths of the configuration file ~/.aptitude/config to ~/.config/aptitude . The reason is for a change in https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html As shared by somebody in https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/8fpr6i/thoughts_on_changing_configuration_files_of/ I don't think I'm alone in this . The obvious breakage would be in any scripts that use aptitude and one way or the other depend or use the configuration path currently using would be broken. There may also be some subtle bugs which may or may not be uncovered or not known which may be exposed by the change perhaps. The other part which perhaps not correctly worded is that aptitude would lose some of its special coolness as it would be in the space where all other packages which use ~/.config are there and it would be easier to find for common folks. The upside if people think would be a good idea is that any perceived or un-perceived fallout of the change, we would have at least a year and a bit more to fix at least in Debian repos. I do know that the Debian aptitude maintainers are conservative when it comes to changes and understandably so. I'm looking for people's thoughts on the above of what people think . I am no coder hence I dunno how much work it would involve and would the changes be self-sustained (till aptitude only) or the changes would also lead to changes in libapt* packages although even then if a transition were to be done it seems both seem to have smaller cycles than some of the transition cycles we have got going through. I did - $ apt-rdepends -r aptitude $ apt-rdepends -r libapt-pkg-dev to have an idea in case if the change I ask meant they need to built from source and transitioned. I am sure there may be lacunae in my theory, but if not asked how would I know ? Look forward to know. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8
