#1036149 slurm-wlm-emulator: consider renaming or removing package

Package:
slurm-wlm-emulator
Source:
slurm-wlm-emulator
Description:
SLURM emulator
Submitter:
陈 晟祺
Date:
2023-05-16 02:27:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1036149#5
Date:
2023-05-16 02:23:42 UTC
From:
To:
Package: slurm-wlm-emulator
Version: 22.05.8-4
X-Debbugs-CC: oliva@debian.org <mailto:oliva@debian.org>

Hi maintainers,

The Slurm variant built with ‘—enable-front-end’ is named as ‘X-emulator’ in Debian.
I have been always curious about this name. After some search [1][2][3], I believe this option is
not (at lease not mainly) for emulation (as it means in QEMU or WINE), but for some special
HPC cluster environments.

My question is why it was named as emulator in the beginning. And would it be possibly to rename
this package to one that not causing confusion (like X-frontend), or removing these packages
completely if the frontend feature is only used in some very rare cases?

Thanks.