Bug#861635: ITP: eternal-terminal -- Remote terminal for the busy and impatient

[Dean Hamstead <dean@fragfest.com.au>]

This seems amazingly close to inclusion.

Perhaps man pages for htm and htmd can be quickly written up?


On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 22:43:44 +0800 Blair Noctis <ncts@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi ChangZhuo,
>
> For fun, I did a packaging for it, see 
https://salsa.debian.org/ncts/EternalTerminal. Note it Debianizes on top 
of upstream Git history, including removing Files-Excluded in the 
debian/sid branch, a style some haven't adopted yet or won't, though the 
debian/ directory should still be usable when copied to a 
gbp-import-orig style packaging.
>
> A few problems:
>
> - A few dependencies are still vendored, under external_imported/. 
Arguably they are small enough (~2k SLoC total from tokei).
> - Binary packages are named et and etserver, per upstream naming. 
Such short names might become controversial.
> - The htm and htmd executables are installed into /usr/libexec/et/, 
because I don't really know what they do, other than a vague line of 
"headless terminal multiplexer". You might want to mention such in a 
README.Debian.
> - Additionally, htm is installed into /usr/libexec/et/htm_/, with a 
wrapper in the expected place. The reason is that, htm calls 
`system("htmd")`, which I suppose expects htmd to be in $PATH. The 
wrapper prepends the libexec path before calling the actual htm executable.
> - `-fuse-ld=mold`. This is mostly personal preference, but does have 
the nice aspect of reducing build time (if mold is really faster than 
GNU ld or lld, I didn't benchmark).
>
> Telemetry is completely removed.
>
> I'm mildly interested in this software, though don't currently have 
the passion to be its (co-)maintainer. So please feel free to take what 
you need, and change my name in various fields to yours :>
>
> --
> Sdrager,
> Blair Noctis