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



On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 11:16:55PM +0200, 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:

agreed...

popcon would probably score this as 10.
 
> > 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.

:-)
 
> > +Architecture: any
> > +Multi-Arch: foreign
> > +Depends:
> > + ${shlibs:Depends},
> > + ${misc:Depends},
> 
> As-is, this would break upgrades, as it's missing Breaks/Replaces
> against xterm.
> 
> > +Description: Determine size of virtual terminal
> > + This program is used to (re)set the width and height of your current
> > + terminal to the size of the virtual terminal.

The description is another problem...

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