Hi ChangZhuo, For fun, I did a packaging for it, see https://salsa.debian.org/ncts/EternalTerminal. Note it Debianizes on top of upstream Git history, including removing Files-Excluded in the debian/sid branch, a style some haven't adopted yet or won't, though the debian/ directory should still be usable when copied to a gbp-import-orig style packaging.
A few problems:
- A few dependencies are still vendored, under external_imported/. Arguably
they are small enough (~2k SLoC total from tokei).
- Binary packages are named et and etserver, per upstream naming. Such short
names might become controversial.
- The htm and htmd executables are installed into /usr/libexec/et/, because I
don't really know what they do, other than a vague line of "headless terminal
multiplexer". You might want to mention such in a README.Debian.
- Additionally, htm is installed into /usr/libexec/et/htm_/, with a wrapper
in the expected place. The reason is that, htm calls `system("htmd")`, which I
suppose expects htmd to be in $PATH. The wrapper prepends the libexec path
before calling the actual htm executable.
- `-fuse-ld=mold`. This is mostly personal preference, but does have the nice
aspect of reducing build time (if mold is really faster than GNU ld or lld, I
didn't benchmark).
Telemetry is completely removed.
I'm mildly interested in this software, though don't currently have the passion
to be its (co-)maintainer. So please feel free to take what you need, and
change my name in various fields to yours :>
--
Sdrager,
Blair Noctis
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