Bug#1059521: ITP: rust-pikchr -- PIC-like diagramming language to SVG converter

2023-12-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: rust-pikchr Version : 0.1.3 Upstream Contact: Daniel Silverstone * URL : https://github.com/kinnison/p

Re: Deprecation of /etc/alternatives? (Re: Reaction to potential PGP schism)

2023-12-27 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sun, 24 Dec 2023 at 22:48, Stephan Seitz wrote: > > Am So, Dez 24, 2023 at 10:06:09 +0100 schrieb Gioele Barabucci: > >After the installation there would be no /usr/bin/gpg. Once the user > >installs, say, ggp-is-gnupg then /usr/bin/gpg will point to > >/usr/bin/gpg-gnupg. Users (and scripts) a

Re: Deprecation of /etc/alternatives? (Re: Reaction to potential PGP schism)

2023-12-27 Thread Hakan Bayındır
Metapackage approach is not the same for many reasons. First, I have seen Debian installations which doesn’t have internet access, but setup with many alternatives of the same application (e.g.: Java). Moreover, apt automatically purges its cache after a successful transaction. As I said in

How to build debian transitional package without source code?

2023-12-27 Thread Kaiqi Z
Hello Debian Community, I need to define a transitional package like debian Renaming Packages Method . Since it is transitional it should not contain any actual source code, only pointing to the real package(via "Depends" field).

Re: How to build debian transitional package without source code?

2023-12-27 Thread Andrey Rakhmatullin
On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 04:36:01PM -0500, Kaiqi Z wrote: > Hello Debian Community, > > I need to define a transitional package like debian Renaming Packages Method > . > > Since it is transitional it should not contain any actual

Re: Deprecation of /etc/alternatives? (Re: Reaction to potential PGP schism)

2023-12-27 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 12/28/23 04:28, Luca Boccassi wrote: if you want to activate a new alternative, you have to download a new package that provides it anyway, so there's no difference. Subsequent switches will use the cached package, and if you have issues downloading a 3 kilobytes metapackage then just en