[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Bug#1023510: Bug#1023510: Use update-alternatives for /usr/share/applications/sm.puri.OSK0

[Arnaud Ferraris]

Hi,

Le 05/11/2022 à 18:42, Guido Günther a écrit :
> Package: squeekboard
> Version: 1.20.0
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> It can be useful to have both squeekboard and phosh-osk-stub
> installed on a system and to switch between them as both implement
> the required interfaces.
> 
> The upstream phosh-osk-stub packages solves that by using a diversion
> but that is not ideal as one can't switch easily.
> 
> As I'd like to upload phosh-osk-stub to experimental it would be great
> to make squeekboard use `update-alternatives` for
> 
>     /usr/share/applications/sm.puri.OSK0
> 
> so both packages get co-installable and the OSK implementation could
> be switched easily.

This sounds like a sensible idea, I support that.

Cheers,
Arnaud

> 
> Filing this bug to see if there are objections, otherwise I'd send a
> patch for squeekboard.
> 
> Cheers,
>   -- Guido
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bookworm/sid
>    APT prefers testing
>    APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: arm64
> 
> Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages squeekboard depends on:
> ii  gnome-themes-extra-data  3.28-2
> ii  libc6                    2.35-3
> ii  libcairo-gobject2        1.16.0-6
> ii  libcairo2                1.16.0-6
> ii  libfeedback-0.0-0        0.0.0+git20220520-1
> ii  libgcc-s1                12.2.0-3
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0      2.42.9+dfsg-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0             2.74.0-2
> pn  libgnome-desktop-3-19    <none>
> ii  libgnome-desktop-3-20    43-2
> ii  libgtk-3-0               3.24.34-3
> ii  libpango-1.0-0           1.50.10+ds-1
> ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0      1.50.10+ds-1
> ii  libwayland-client0       1.21.0-1
> ii  libxkbcommon0            1.4.1-1
> 
> squeekboard recommends no packages.
> 
> squeekboard suggests no packages.
> 
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