Bug#946213: RFS: git-delta/0.0.15 -- Syntax-highlighting pager for git and diff output
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 08:30:44PM -0500, Dan Davison wrote:
> 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
> 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"
> 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?)
Sorry, having an executable in $PATH named "delta" is not an option at all.
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