On Thu 2019-05-23 09:47:54 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:05:27PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>
>> Sequoia offers an OpenPGP interface in a modern, memory-safe language.
>> It offers two command-line utilities (sq and sqv) in addition to its
>> Rust library implementation.
>
> Please note that there is a file conflict with ispell:
>
> ispell: /usr/bin/sq
Thanks for raising this, pabs.
I'm aware of this concern -- it's https://bugs.debian.org/909085, which
is marked as blocking #929385.
I proposed a fix for #909085 that drops /usr/bin/sq from that package 6
months ago and asked for concerns. Hearing none, i've pushed an NMU
into experimental via DELAYED/15 yesterday (so it's still 14 days away
from experimental), which drops sq.
afaict, sq was first removed upstream in the late 1990s or early 2000s,
and then briefly put back into ispell in 2002. in 2002, the
understanding was "some dictionaries are still distributed in sq
format", but i don't think upstream ispell has actually shipped sq
deliberately for many years, and it is demonstrably broken upstream as
well (debian has been patching it -- for both bugfixes and to make it
ship correctly -- for many years now).
Far better compression mechanisms than ispell's sq exist today as well.
If you know of anyone who really needs ispell's sq shipped in debian,
please alert them to this so that we can figure out some other
approach. Otherwise, if all works out, i hope to see sq in bullseye
provided by sequoia.
--dkg
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