Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> writes: > On Oct 05, Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> wrote: > >> I would like that 'apt install signify' install OpenBSD's signify (from >> the Debian 'signify-openbsd' package) and not the 2003 mail-related >> signify perl script from the Debian 'signify' source package. > Agreed: the current signify package is a niche tool maintained by QA and > last updated upstream in 2004: it should be renamed without wasting any > more time. > >> To make this happen for trixie, I don't see how to do it. Anyone having >> the old 'signify' package on their system would get OpenBSD's signify >> instead of the new 'signify-mail' package after an upgrade. Is that >> problem really worth caring about? > No: popcon == 58.
although small, the benefit also seems small. and 58 also seems like a lot of people who might be inconvenienced? could better be done with metapackages over 2 stable releases?
