* Package name    : slat
  Version         : 0.2.0
  Upstream Author : Bobby Anthene <bobbyanthenrao@gmail.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/noturbob/slat
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: Go
  Description     : terminal multiplexer with tiling panes, tabs and workspaces

 slat splits one terminal into panes, tabs and workspaces. The shells
 run inside a background daemon, so closing the terminal window or losing
 an SSH connection does not end them: running slat again reattaches to the
 same session with every pane intact.
 .
 Each pane has its own terminal emulator, so full-screen programs such as
 editors and system monitors stay confined to their pane, and its output
 can be scrolled back and searched. Keys are driven by a single prefix key
 and can be remapped in a TOML configuration file.

Why package it: it offers a simpler, zero-configuration alternative to
tmux and screen, with the keybindings shown in-app and scrollback search
built in. All its build dependencies are already in Debian (burntsushi-toml,
creack-pty, mattn-go-runewidth, golang-x-term); no new library packages are
needed.

I am the upstream author and intend to maintain the package, and I am
looking for a sponsor. The package builds in unstable, passes its test
suite and is lintian-clean apart from this bug's number.
(The source package "slat" last existed in Debian in lenny, for an
unrelated SELinux tool that was removed long ago.)

There used to be an unrelated slat package, so this is a name reuse.
I do not know whether this is allowed.

Hi Bastian,

Thank you for catching that -- I would rather know now than in NEW.

You are right that the name was used before. For the record, the previous
package was:

  slat 2.0-5, "Security-Enhanced Linux Analysis Tools": tools for
  information flow analysis of SELinux policies, maintained by Manoj
  Srivastava, section admin.

It was removed from the archive on 2009-08-16 at its own maintainer's
request -- #541373, "RM: slat -- ROM; Dead upstream, obsolete" -- and has
not been in any suite since. The two pieces of software are unrelated: that
one analysed SELinux policy, this one is a terminal multiplexer. Upstream
chose the name independently, without knowing of the older package.

As far as I can tell there is no rule against reusing the name of a package
removed sixteen years ago, but I am not the one who decides that, so I am
happy to be told otherwise.

There is a second issue you did not raise which I think matters more, and I
would rather put it on the table myself: my version is lower than the one
that was removed. The old package reached 2.0-5; this is 0.2.1-1. Nothing
currently in the archive constrains it, but the ordering is backwards for
anyone reading the package's history, and an upgrade path from the 2009
package does not exist.

If ftpmaster would prefer it, I am glad to upload as 1:0.2.1-1 so the new
package sorts above everything the old one ever shipped. I have not done so
pre-emptively, because an epoch is permanent and I would rather not add one
that nobody wanted.

And if the conclusion is that the name should not be reused at all, tell me
and I will rename upstream. It is early enough that renaming costs me a
release, not a migration.

Simon Josefsson has reviewed 0.2.1-1 and offered to sponsor it
(#1148387); the packaging is in the Go team's namespace on Salsa with the
salsa-ci suite passing.

Thanks again for looking.

Bobby Anthene

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
slat, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1148370@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bobby Anthene <bobbyanthenrao@gmail.com> (supplier of updated slat package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:28:42 +0530
Source: slat
Binary: slat slat-dbgsym
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 0.2.1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <team+pkg-go@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Bobby Anthene <bobbyanthenrao@gmail.com>
Description:
 slat       - terminal multiplexer with tiling panes, tabs and workspaces
Closes: 1148370
Changes:
 slat (0.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Initial release (Closes: #1148370)
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