On 1/27/22 5:11 PM, Sean Whitton wrote:
Hello David,
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Reviewing this bug, it is still not clear to me that a virtual package is wanted as opposed to just making /usr/bin/todo a path managed by the alternatives system. I'm closing the bug, but if development that has taken place in the todo.txt world since our previous dicsussion has changed matters such that there are concrete usecases for the virtual packages that you can explain, then please consider opening a new bug with that explanation.
We have a significant disconnect here. The todo.txt-base (and gtd) packages place more requirements on an alternative implementations other than just owning the name. The proposed virtual package would codify that contract. That represents a concrete set of use cases, laid out previously in this thread, in Dec 2020 (the stuff about autodiscovery of the datafile, and support of hooks - both allow todo.txt-gtd to properly interact).
The packages that interact with todo.txt are released: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/todo.txt-base https://github.com/davesteele/todo.txt-base https://packages.debian.org/sid/todo.txt-gtdAlso, aesthetically, I believe that Debian should have a package named todo.txt that installs todo.txt-cli by default.
OTOH, I undertook this process only because Ondrej required it before supporting integration of todo.txt-cli with todo.txt-base. I'd be happy to support the majority consensus between the three of us on how to proceed.
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