[DRE-maint] Bug#959008: tmuxinator: nags user about new tmux versions

[brian m. carlson]

Package: tmuxinator
Version: 1.1.4-3
Severity: normal

tmuxinator nags the user when the version of tmux is unknown to it.
This is a deliberate upstream decision, but it annoys users and is not
in their interest.  The sole option to disable this requires an explicit
version for a specific subcommand which means one cannot just use a
shell alias to avoid the warning.

If it is really the case that tmuxinator is not functional with newer
tmux versions, or it can't be suitably guaranteed by the Debian package,
please add a suitable Depends requirement on the versions it supports,
such that tmux cannot be upgraded to an unsupported version that causes
tmuxinator to nag the user.

Otherwise, if it is the case that this is a needless warning, please
patch it out.  Debian already does this for a variety of other software,
including OpenSSL, that has excessively strict version warnings.

Note that upgrading tmuxinator here is not sufficient to solve the
problem (unless that version removes the warning), since it will reoccur
with the next upgrade.  The defect being described here is that the user
is able to be nagged at all when Debian dependencies are satisfied, not
that tmuxinator is out of date.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages tmuxinator depends on:
ii  ruby         1:2.7+1
ii  ruby-erubis  2.7.0-3
ii  ruby-thor    0.20.3-2
ii  ruby-xdg     2.2.3-1
ii  tmux         3.1-1

tmuxinator recommends no packages.

tmuxinator suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US
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