Re: signify and signify-openbsd names
Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> writes:
> 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.
although small, the benefit also seems small. and 58 also seems like a
lot of people who might be inconvenienced?
could better be done with metapackages over 2 stable releases?
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