On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 12:33:34PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun 2026 at 10:30:45 +0200, Matthias Geiger wrote: > > +# Wayland > > + - name: wayland-terminal-emulator > > + description: a wayland client which emulates a terminal with a > > terminfo description > > What's the intended purpose of this virtual package? Which packages are > expected to interact with it? > > If providing the virtual package requires implementing a specific > alternative (via dpkg's update-alternatives), then I think the entry in > Policy's list should say so. But I'm already not a fan of the use of > alternatives for x-terminal-emulator, because I think it's a bad fit for > what desktop environment users expect. > > fit for GNOME, and Konsole is a better fit for KDE. But if their > applications start x-terminal-emulator, then there's no way to represent > that expectation, and at most one of our two users can get what they want.
What about sensible-terminal ? Cheers, Bill.
