Bug#946213: RFS: git-delta/0.0.15 -- Syntax-highlighting pager for git and diff output

[Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 at 22:31, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:

On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 9:36 PM Dan Davison wrote:

> Currently (FreeBSD, Rust Cargo, Arch Linux, Homebrew) the package name is "git-delta", which installs an executable named "delta". Can it do the same for Debian?

There is one package already using that executable name:

$ apt-file search bin/delta
...
swap-cwm: /usr/bin/delta

In general, it is a bad idea to use generic names because of the
potential for namespace conflicts (in $PATH, package names etc).

A rebrand to something like diff-syntax-highlight or git-delta might
be a good idea.

You might be right that my naming was suboptimal! Indeed, even the git-prefixed package name isn't great because the syntax highlighter works for unified diff in addition to git output. However, I'm not sure I'm ready to make this breaking change for the existing users yet. Is it an option to distribute it for now with the same name as it is currently distributed under in ArchLinux, Homebrew, FreeBSD, Windows and Rust Cargo? I.e. 

package: "git-delta"

executable: "delta"

(For all but Rust Cargo this is in conflict with the other project, for which package = executable = delta).)

Specifically, are either of the following options?

1. Package "git-delta" installing executable "delta" (install fail/denied if user has the other package installed)

2. Package "git-delta" installing executables "delta" and alias "git-delta" (only the alias installed if "delta" exists?)

 

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