On 22/12/23 00:40, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
If you're asking about using /etc/alternatives or something like that to provide some sort of generic swapping capability, or a dpkg Provides:, such that /usr/bin/gpg on some systems would point toward the "chameleon", i would want to see some significant archive-wide testing done before we even consider inflicting that on our normal users.
While we are on the topic of alternatives, I hope to see the maintscript-based /etc/alternatives paradigm deprecated in favor of the package-based X-is-X paradigm introduced by `python-is-python3`.
In this scenario gnupg will ship gpg as /usr/bin/gpg-gnupg, while sequoia-chameleon-gnupg will ship its gpg as /usr/bin/gpg-sq. Then the user can decide to install gpg-is-gnupg or gpg-is-sequoia (with the distro-wide preference expressed setting the appropriate Recommends in gnupg or sequoia-chameleon-gnupg).
Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci