On 2016-05-31.14:54, Axel Beckert wrote: > If unclutter-xfixes is really that much better (which I'd expect due > to the age of unclutter), I'd rather make a transitional package from > unclutter to unclutter-xfixes and get rid of unclutter in the long run. That would work too if you're okay to do that :-) > My plan was so far: > > 1) Package unclutter-xfixes with an unclutter transitional package and > upload to experimental first. That way, people who use unclutter > can test unclutter-xfixes to see if anything needs to be fixed > there to make unclutter-xfixes a drop-in replacement for unclutter. > > 2) When being mature, upload unclutter-xfixes to unstable. > > 3) Remove unclutter source package from Debian Unstable. That plan sounds good! I personally have given up using the original unclutter package due to poor interactions with some WMs. unclutter-xfixes seems to work better *for me*, but I'd certainly like to see a good amount of testing before dropping unclutter in favour if it. > Do you have the packaging somewhere to review and to test > unclutter-xfixes on Debian? I've uploaded a package (built for experimental) to mentors[0], and have pushed the packaging work to my personal gitlab account[1]. Seeing as though unclutter is already in collab-maint, it seems to make sense to put unclutter-xfixes there too... would you be able to request access for me? :-) (my alioth handle is smlx-guest) As a relative n00b to debian packaging, I've followed this wiki page[2] (case #5) for the correct approach to doing a package transition. It would be great if you could check that the Breaks/Replaces/Provides fields look correct. [0] https://mentors.debian.net/package/unclutter-xfixes [1] https://gitlab.com/smlx/unclutter-xfixes [2] https://wiki.debian.org/PackageTransition -- Regards, Scott.
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