A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one. Personally, seeing the popularity of vanilla i3 and by extension i3-gaps (which some people prefer aesthetically) in conjunction with the combined userbase of debian and all of its offspring, it became apparent i3-gaps should have been available sooner in debian.
If one was to graph the users the users of the debian-family of distributions and every other distribution family out there, it becomes clear that a lot of people might be missing something they are used to using elsewhere (most other big families of distributions have the fork available as can be seen here: https://repology.org/project/i3-gaps/versions ). And a lot of people have real trouble compiling this piece of software from source (mostly new linux users of the debian-derivatives). Therefore since i use debian from time to time, when my gentoo box is occupied compiling for 12 hours straight, it occured to me i should package i3-gaps for debian and therefore all its derivatives to give people easy access. Certainly, a merge is the superior solution and i am glad its actually being considered, but my understanding is that code refactoring/cleaning could take a considerable amount of time, and therefore the package should actually be available as a temporary solution for all those who want to use it, as it currently is everywhere else. Again, i congratulate Michael and Ingo for their work. On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 8:39 PM Dominik George <naturesha...@debian.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi antisocrates, > > > Ingo will outline what needs to be done to get i3-gaps into a mergable > > state, so that we can eventually bring these features to all i3 users. > > > > For the time being, our recommendation is to NOT add i3-gaps to Debian or > > any other Linux distribution. Instead, if you have time and motivation, > > please consider helping improve i3-gaps with the goal of a merge. > > With that in mind, please reconsider your package, antisocrates, and > the invitation at hand ☺. > > I strongly support the view not to add i3-gaps as a separate package, > now that it was made clear that there are efforts to get the gaps > feature merged. > > Cheers, > Nik > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQJlBAEBCgBPFiEEPJ1UpHV1wCb7F/0mt5o8FqDE8pYFAl0Hz6IxGmh0dHBzOi8v > d3d3LmRvbWluaWstZ2VvcmdlLmRlL2dwZy1wb2xpY3kudHh0LmFzYwAKCRC3mjwW > oMTyliwpEADbI2jq1IiEhBjBi8qDSPaq3WGG8gNtC6kt57JXysUV+FerDrp9qwax > Z9HXHjyHyP4oxq0bpbJQHmYTjnNz4FknN2bqdqWO5/bBodOsYmrs4leailsqzDPX > aweB3HB46or6lZhCymwKZhhseL9Sv3aBbRBiusBI5umpuGlIwMm1cjXlGse6jUgp > +q28k9dydqHb14yxTjA4HPuWHamcoKAwT28IzTV5T6PaKKRiUgmdH6OqDXLpNTFO > 8pWvldEHn8lL4QCFiu2kaDA3AAucAZ8++ebxzfyORksWAsLRT56tu+eBHt6nJyQs > hf+BeDAWUjOKmx304N38mPcHrhq+mFnNlaUtspxXhGEWOfSnce8ZDacN/ST6jepV > nB4vGdiyl6leUNTq9fDENg8UU00Hkpuz5n4pAzQMLc2nx6YLkujS7NOhNff8gwei > HiyYqCNK1ATw/X2r+RLl2oROgd+rBPQ5C2RZw2sm+sDd/hSZLEcO5kjDpXXyAze8 > /8YhpbgsC5OSy7gK7UmKYm66pexKoto6VDeyh05gqG2z0eXTjpyM+19Rc6f9nZrv > Rnt/ON0xUFldZZ2s71nz0Wzc9zeDNQL40iisUZP1i8+qhoS7cuQKC3Kl0rUHkOqt > 1ViYNdBszUkBuvCyuaZuPV3Oi2gpHfWbbqv8UBNjVK6iatZMf0UBgg== > =3IgO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
