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Bug#859461: xterm: seperate package for resize would be nice



Hello Julien,

On 03/27/2018 11:16 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Control: tag -1 - patch
> 
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 14:21:01 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 
>> Control: tag 859461 + patch
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 01:49:32PM -0600, ben hildred wrote:
>>> Which brings me to my request, split resize into a seprate package and depend
>>> on it to preserve existing functionality while allowing headless machines to
>>> install just resize.
>> I could make use of this, too. Here is a patch:
>>
> I'm not convinced this split is a good idea.  But:
> 
>> diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
>> index 711d5d9b54f2..50d7217da720 100644
>> --- a/debian/control
>> +++ b/debian/control
>> @@ -141,3 +142,13 @@ Description: X terminal emulator
>>   .
>>   Those interested in using koi8rxterm will likely want to install the
>>   xfonts-cyrillic package as well.
>> +
>> +Package: resize
> 
> This isn't a good package name.  It's too generic.

Fair enough. What do you think about termresize? Should the binary be
renamed then, too? (I'd say no.)

>> +Architecture: any
>> +Multi-Arch: foreign
>> +Depends:
>> + ${shlibs:Depends},
>> + ${misc:Depends},
> 
> As-is, this would break upgrades, as it's missing Breaks/Replaces
> against xterm.

Right you are. I can address this after the naming question is resolved.

Best regards
Uwe

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