[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#1030148: tk8.6: Please switch the order of Recommends, making xterm the fallback for x-terminal-emulator

[Lukas Märdian]

Package: tk8.6
Version: 8.6.13-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu lunar ubuntu-patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: slyon at ubuntu.com

Dear Sergei,

please switch the order of tk8.6's Recommends so that xterm is only the
fallback option if nothing else provides x-terminal-emulator.

Many packages can provide x-terminal-emulator. For example in Ubuntu
we're having gnome-terminal in the "main" component, provding
x-terminal-emulator, but xterm being the primary choice here produces
a (false positive) component-mismatch, as tk8.6 in "main" cannot
recommend xterm in "universe", but this dependency should rather be
resolved by the x-terminal-emulator that gnome-terminal provides.

Thanks for considering the patch.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers jammy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'jammy-updates'), (500, 'jammy-security'), (500, 'jammy'), (100, 'jammy-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-56-generic (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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diff -Nru tk8.6-8.6.13/debian/control tk8.6-8.6.13/debian/control
--- tk8.6-8.6.13/debian/control	2022-11-25 12:21:42.000000000 +0100
+++ tk8.6-8.6.13/debian/control	2023-01-31 16:32:47.000000000 +0100
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 Priority: optional
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Recommends: xterm | x-terminal-emulator
+Recommends: x-terminal-emulator | xterm
 Conflicts: tk40 (<= 4.0p3-2), libtk-img (<< 1.2.5)
 Multi-Arch: foreign
 Description: Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11 v8.6 - windowing shell