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Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt





On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 4:42 PM Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 01:34:44PM -0500, David Steele wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 1:15 PM Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Do you envision to have packages depending on todo and then use the
> > todo binary ?
> >
>
> No. This is a means to allow topydo and todotxt-cli to use "todo" without
> crowding devtodo. I believe this meets the definition of a virtual package
> in the Policy.

I am not use I understand. Do you plan for /usr/bin/todo to be managed by
update-alternatives ? That would require all alternatives to share a common
interface.

The guidance in the Policy is that alternatives "offer more-or-less the same
functionality". I believe this standard is met.


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