Bug#697078: tpu: xdotool/1:2.20100701.2961-3+deb7u1

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi,

I'm an xdotool user (it's called from my .xsession on all my boxes
with X) and the package maintainer of one of libxdo's reverse
dependencies, keynav.

Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
[…]
> I don't know what the right thing to do is, frankly.  I could support
> either completely disabling the test suite (despite that seeming rather
> wrong) or just dropping xdotool from wheezy, given how out-of-date the
> candidate package is.

Since keynav would have to go, too, I've looked at the popcon stats
for both, keynav and xdotool.

* xdotool has 2163 installations and 660 votes, roughly exponetially
  raising[1].

* keynav has 87 installations and 28 votes, slowly and linearly
  raising[2].

[1] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=xdotool
[2] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=keynav

So keynav is more or less not relevant with regards to a potential
xdotool removal.

But even as keynav maintainer and "just" an xdotool user, xdotool is
the more important and useful tool for me, because it's for automating
stuff (and hence mostly embedded in setups which would likely break
without it) while keynav is more for cases where the mouse isn't (too)
usable, either for technical or for accessibility reasons.

For me xdotool 1:2.20100701.2961-3+deb7u2 (amd64) from TPU works fine
in my daily usage.

Given xdotool's not so small amounts in the popcon statistics[1], the
fact that it seems to work fine[3] and only the testsuite in Wheezy
(but not in Sid) seems to have issues[4], I suggest to disable the
testsuite for Wheezy and leave xdotool in Wheezy.

[3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=xdotool;dist=testing
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697078#74

		Regards, Axel
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