Package: xloadimage Version: 4.1-16.2 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi,
I do not know the history of xloadimage and xli. The latter looks to be a (relatively) better maintained fork of the former. So I use the latter instead of the former (though that's probably due to ignorance more than anything else!). This bug is a request to * find the technical differences between the two viewers; * try to port the good features from the lesser to the better one; * if there are deep incompatibilities, see if it's possible to make it configurable or something like findutils's /usr/bin/fold vs /usr/bin/oldfind split to still let people work with one codebase * make one Debian package into a dummy package that pulls in the other. Naturally that's a lot to do; even partial progress would be very helpful in making useful package descriptions to help people choose between the two packages possible. By the way, the only upstream location I could find for the two is ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/xloadimage.4.1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xli.1.16.tar.gz ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xli.README Is there someplace else that people coordinate on patches? (E.g., where does xli 1.17.0+20061110 come from?) Thanks for your work, and sorry to fill your inbox with this nonsense (though I hope it can be useful nonsense). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
