On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 11:30:07AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 03:23:13PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 03:26:13PM +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > ... > > > If not, I don't see a point in creating a separate package for it. And I > > actually as I understand Debian policy, it would have to be a separate > package because the upstream source differs. I discussed this further with Brendan O'Dea, and mentioned also that upstream luit doesn't use automake, i.e., like the other programs which I maintain would depend upon autoconf-dickey. Mixing that with x11-utils would be unlikely to be a satisfactory arrangement. Brendan suggested that rather than using the alternatives feature, to instead a) use dpkg-divert to allow luit 2.0 to be installed with the existing x11-utils, and b) after luit 2.0 is available in main, update x11-utils to remove luit 1.1.1, replacing it with a "Recommends". I've uploaded the version using dpkg-divert here: https://mentors.debian.net/package/luit/ -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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