Hi, On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:35:02PM +1000, Scott Leggett wrote: > I have filed an ITP for "unclutter-xfixes"[0] - a reimplementation of > the "unclutter" package, using a different X API.
Oh, you're faster than me. :-) I only recently heard of unclutter-xfixes (shortly before its 1.1 release) and was looking if migrating the unclutter package to it would be an option. I also have a half-baked packaging for unclutter-xfixes, but didn't file an ITP since I wasn't yet sure if I'd really package it. So I'm actually very glad that someone else also has interest in packaging unclutter-xfixes. > A discussion on debian-mentors[1] led to the suggestion of using the > alternatives system to allow both the "unclutter" and "unclutter-xfixes" > packages to provide a version of the "unclutter" binary. [...] > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2016/05/msg00732.html If unclutter-xfixes is really that much better (which I'd expect due to the age of unclutter), I'd rather make a transitional package from unclutter to unclutter-xfixes and get rid of unclutter in the long run. > As the maintainer of "unclutter", Cc'ing Ian Jackson who volunteered for being the fallback maintainer of the unclutter package. > would you be open to using the alternatives system to allow both > packages to share the same binary name? Not really. :-) > Otherwise I will just patch upstream to name the new binary > "unclutter-xfixes". Not necessary IMHO. My plan was so far: 1) Package unclutter-xfixes with an unclutter transitional package and upload to experimental first. That way, people who use unclutter can test unclutter-xfixes to see if anything needs to be fixed there to make unclutter-xfixes a drop-in replacement for unclutter. 2) When being mature, upload unclutter-xfixes to unstable. 3) Remove unclutter source package from Debian Unstable. Do you have the packaging somewhere to review and to test unclutter-xfixes on Debian? If you haven't begun yet, I can give you what I have so far. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
