Bug#1136306: debian-policy: Proposing new wayland-terminal-emulator alternative and virtual package

On Thu, 28 May 2026 17:34:04 +0200 Matthias Geiger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 May 2026 04:05:44 +0200 Guillem Jover <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Control: reassign -1 debian-policy
> > Control: retitle -1 Bug#1136306: debian-policy: Proposing new wayland-terminal-emulator alternative and virtual package
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > 
> > I think it makes sense to have both a virtual package and an
> > alternative for wayland-terminal-emulator, as using x-terminal-emulator
> > for wayland ones seems wrong to me.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tend to agree. As I also mentioned in #1004522 this would greatly 
> improve discoverability of "wayland-ready" terminal emulators.
>
While there are terminals that work both on x11 and wayland, I think 
this makes sense nonetheless.
This is my inital patch:


diff --git a/virtual-package-names-list.yaml b/virtual-package-names-list.yaml
index 9e0089e..0e6cb84 100644
--- a/virtual-package-names-list.yaml
+++ b/virtual-package-names-list.yaml
@@ -223,6 +223,10 @@ virtualPackages:
  - name: xserver
    description: an X server that (directly or indirectly) manages physical input and display hardware
 
+# Wayland
+ - name: wayland-terminal-emulator
+   description: a wayland client which emulates a terminal with a terminfo description in the ncurses-term package  
+
 # Fonts
 
  - name: fonts-japanese-gothic

best,

werdahias