Re: Bug#1103770: Does not accept -name command line option

[Nilesh Patra <nilesh@riseup.net>]

On 23 April 2025 7:36:44 pm IST, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
>Regarding the following, written by "Nilesh Patra" on 2025-04-22 at 17:59 Uhr +0530:
>> As per upstream we need to use "xdg-terminal-exec". However, I could not find an alternative system by that name yet in Debian.
>
>To be honest, I am myself a bit unsure. `x-terminal-emulator` and the alternatives system is a bit antiquated. Before we introduce technical debt with patches we have to maintain against upstream, this might be better discussed with the policy team?
>

OK, I am CC'ing that list in reply.

Policy team: could you please help us out here?

PS: martin, note that I will not take any action on this bug until trixie release.


Best,
Nilesh