Bug#369792: xterm: [PACKAGE SPLIT] Please make 'resize' a separate package (useful on its own)
Package: xterm
Version: 210-3
Severity: normal
It's a little awkward to supply program:
resize
with the xterm package because this program is useful on its own. The
xterm is not a good terminal for low end PCs, where rxvt and mini-rxvt
provide same features with much less memory. However the need for
single program resize is still there for other terminal.
REASONING
It is inconvenient to have to install package 'xterm' just to use
program 'resize'. I assume here that resize does not depend on program
'xterm' in any way.
Also searching for program 'resize' is very hard if you don't know
where it is. If resize were its own package this would also make
program searches intuitive
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library
ii libice6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 1:1.0.1-5 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xbitmaps 1.0.1-2 Base X bitmaps
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii xutils 1:7.0.0-3 X Window System utility programs
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