Bug#976402: Proposed official virtual packages - todo and todo.txt
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 12:15:06PM -0500, David Steele wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, charlesmelara@outlook.com,
> onovy@debian.org
> thanks
>
>
> I'd like to propose adding the virtual packages "todo" and "todo.txt" to
> the authoritative list of virtual package names. I'm submitting this per
> Policy section 3.6 and the preamble to the [authoritative list].
>
> [Todo.txt] describes an ecosystem of task management tools that revolve
> around a standard for a freeform-text tasking file.
>
> The reference cli has been packaged for some time, as "todotxt-cli". It
> provides the executable "todo-txt".
>
> An alternative cli provider, "topydo", has been recently added, adding
> an executable by the same name.
>
> I propose uniting this packages using the name "todo" - the common name
> for the utility. Since not all todo list packages that may want to share
> that name conform to the todo.txt standards, I also propose "todo.txt",
> a strict subset of "todo", for packages which conform.
>
> Note that topydo already implements these virtual packages, and that
> there now exists a todo.txt-base packages that extends cli todo.txt
> capabilities. There is also a todo.txt-cli package in Sid. This is
> redundant, and has a pending RM request.
>
> I did a screen scrape of p.d.o to find any possible collisions for these
> names. There is a single package, devtodo (popcon 74, recently ITA'd),
> that installs a "todo" executable. Currently, topydo Conflicts with this
> package. I'd propose adding it to the "todo" virtual package.
>
> This is a request for comment per the procedure in the list.
Does all theses tools provide an compatible interface ?
In other word, are there interoperable ?
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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