Control: retitle -1 ITA: galternatives -- graphical setup tool for the alternatives system Control: owner 856289 ! I intend to adopt the galternatives package and set it as co-maintained inside Debian Chinese Team [1] since several Chinese contributors expressed willingness to help with the development of this package inside IRC channel. I am aware of the existence of "galternatives" project on Alioth [2]. However this project is apparently inactive and the project manager (in CC list) is no longer the (current) maintainer of galternatives package. As a result, I am setting up another git project in collab-maint [3] to coordinate future development. To ease the participation of contributors who have no permission on Alioth, another repo mirror on GitHub [4] is set up as well to receive commits from external users. Development plans for future galternatives includes (but not limited to): * Migration from python2 to python3 * Splitting of python code in order to form a separate python library * Packaging modernization * Misc code review * (Perhaps) call update-alternatives as a backend instead of parsing alternatives files by hand The package description is: A GUI to help the system administrator to choose what program should provide a given service. . This is a graphical front-end to the update-alternatives program shipped with dpkg. [1] https://chinese.alioth.debian.org [2] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/galternatives/ [3] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/galternatives.git [4] https://github.com/debiancn/galternatives -- Regards, Boyuan Yang
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