[Pkg-urxvt-maintainers] Bug#848284: ping: please take over rxvt and migrate rxvt-unicode to 256

[Ryan Kavanagh]

Hi Adam, 

On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 06:06:23PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> As I filed this just before Stretch's freeze, and you didn't act immediately,
> the freeze precluded us from killing old rxvt.  It'd be nice if you could do
> so for Buster.

Thanks for reminding me of this. I have a backlog of changes to urxvt I want to
upload in the next few days, so I'll make this change with those.
 
> I think, though, that instead of migrating to rxvt-unicode-256color, it might
> be better to take over rxvt, make it the primary package, and make all other
> variants be dummy transitionals for it.

To confirm, you suggest making "rxvt" the primary binary package, and making the
following dummy transitionals for it:
 * aterm
 * rxvt-unicode
 * rxvt-unicode-256color

I also propose making rxvt-unicode-lite a transition package. I don't know that
saving 200kb in an executable is worth the overhead given today's hardware:
rak at zeta:/tmp$ for f in lite 256color; \
    do dpkg -c rxvt-unicode-${f}_9.22-1+b3_amd64.deb | grep 'bin/urxvt$'; done
-rwxr-sr-x root/utmp   1136448 2017-07-22 02:35 ./usr/bin/urxvt
-rwxr-sr-x root/utmp   1398784 2017-07-22 02:35 ./usr/bin/urxvt

I've never had to do a multi-package transition, but I assume I'll need to
coordinate with debian-release following the same procedure as for library
transitions?

Happy holidays,
Ryan

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