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Re: signify and signify-openbsd names



On Oct 05, Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:

> I would like that 'apt install signify' install OpenBSD's signify (from
> the Debian 'signify-openbsd' package) and not the 2003 mail-related
> signify perl script from the Debian 'signify' source package.
Agreed: the current signify package is a niche tool maintained by QA and 
last updated upstream in 2004: it should be renamed without wasting any 
more time.

> To make this happen for trixie, I don't see how to do it.  Anyone having
> the old 'signify' package on their system would get OpenBSD's signify
> instead of the new 'signify-mail' package after an upgrade.  Is that
> problem really worth caring about?
No: popcon == 58.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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