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

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:59:05 -0400
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 12:00:54PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
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> > While there are terminals that work both on x11 and wayland, I think
> > this makes sense nonetheless.
> > This is my inital patch:
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> LGTM, though let's check with the ncurses-term maintainers that this
> makes sent to them too.
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> Ncurses maintainers, could you review this addition to the list of
> virtual package names, please?

It's not relevant to ncurses-term, because none of the terminals have
adopted any feature which makes displaying in wayland differ from X11.

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
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