* Package name    : et
  Upstream Author : Jason Gauci
* URL             : https://mistertea.github.io/EternalTCP/
* License         : Apache 2.0
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically
                    reconnects without interrupting the session.

Also why is this changed to RFP?  I'm more than happy to maintain this
package since I'm the author :-)

Jason G.

didn't check if PPA upstream promotes a good start


Re Jason's

because it had been over a year without package materializing, thus it
is more of RFP than ITP.

Hi ChangZhuo,

For fun, I did a packaging for it, see https://salsa.debian.org/ncts/EternalTerminal. Note it Debianizes on top of upstream Git history, including removing Files-Excluded in the debian/sid branch, a style some haven't adopted yet or won't, though the debian/ directory should still be usable when copied to a gbp-import-orig style packaging.

A few problems:

- A few dependencies are still vendored, under external_imported/. Arguably they are small enough (~2k SLoC total from tokei).
- Binary packages are named et and etserver, per upstream naming. Such short names might become controversial.
- The htm and htmd executables are installed into /usr/libexec/et/, because I don't really know what they do, other than a vague line of "headless terminal multiplexer". You might want to mention such in a README.Debian.
  - Additionally, htm is installed into /usr/libexec/et/htm_/, with a wrapper in the expected place. The reason is that, htm calls `system("htmd")`, which I suppose expects htmd to be in $PATH. The wrapper prepends the libexec path before calling the actual htm executable.
- `-fuse-ld=mold`. This is mostly personal preference, but does have the nice aspect of reducing build time (if mold is really faster than GNU ld or lld, I didn't benchmark).

Telemetry is completely removed.

I'm mildly interested in this software, though don't currently have the passion to be its (co-)maintainer. So please feel free to take what you need, and change my name in various fields to yours :>

This seems amazingly close to inclusion.

Perhaps man pages for htm and htmd can be quickly written up?


On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 22:43:44 +0800 Blair Noctis <ncts@debian.org> wrote:

 > Hi ChangZhuo,
 >
 > For fun, I did a packaging for it, see
https://salsa.debian.org/ncts/EternalTerminal. Note it Debianizes on top
of upstream Git history, including removing Files-Excluded in the
debian/sid branch, a style some haven't adopted yet or won't, though the
debian/ directory should still be usable when copied to a
gbp-import-orig style packaging.
 >
 > A few problems:
 >
 > - A few dependencies are still vendored, under external_imported/.
Arguably they are small enough (~2k SLoC total from tokei).
 > - Binary packages are named et and etserver, per upstream naming.
Such short names might become controversial.
 > - The htm and htmd executables are installed into /usr/libexec/et/,
because I don't really know what they do, other than a vague line of
"headless terminal multiplexer". You might want to mention such in a
README.Debian.
 > - Additionally, htm is installed into /usr/libexec/et/htm_/, with a
wrapper in the expected place. The reason is that, htm calls
`system("htmd")`, which I suppose expects htmd to be in $PATH. The
wrapper prepends the libexec path before calling the actual htm executable.
 > - `-fuse-ld=mold`. This is mostly personal preference, but does have
the nice aspect of reducing build time (if mold is really faster than
GNU ld or lld, I didn't benchmark).
 >
 > Telemetry is completely removed.
 >
 > I'm mildly interested in this software, though don't currently have
the passion to be its (co-)maintainer. So please feel free to take what
you need, and change my name in various fields to yours :>
 >
 > --
 > Sdrager,
 > Blair Noctis

Seems like this has stalled unfortunately?