Bug#944028: ITP: git-delta -- A syntax-highlighting pager for git
When time permits please let me know how I can help and what the next steps are.
I'm not an expert on packaging considerations but I note that the
package which was conflicting with delta on binary name "delta" was
removed from Debian here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=961607. The ideal
would be to install delta as an executable named "delta", since that
is how the executable is referred to in upstream documentation and
current user configuration files.
On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 at 12:17, Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all, I'm the package author and maintainer; let me know if I can help.
>
> It seems that debian will need to install delta with an executable name other than "delta" since that is taken: if so I suggest the installed executable name should be "git-delta", since that is the proposed name of the package (and is the name of the package in other package repositories). It's a little unfortunate, since the tool also works on unified diff (and subversion, and mercurial) input, but I'm not aware of a better solution.
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> Linking another debian packaging ticket (now archived) for getting delta into debian from last year: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946213
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> Dan
>
> On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:06:01 +0000 Franklin Yu <franklinyu@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Note that the author already have a packaging script:
> >
> > https://github.com/dandavison/delta/blob/3790009a45cc9fc99bb7ae7249e756b393d35eda/etc/ci/before_deploy.sh
> >
> > This script generates some basic Debian files. It might be a good starting
> > point.
> >
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