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

On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 12:33:34PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jun 2026 at 10:30:45 +0200, Matthias Geiger wrote:
> > +# Wayland
> > + - name: wayland-terminal-emulator
> > +   description: a wayland client which emulates a terminal with a
> > terminfo description
> 
> What's the intended purpose of this virtual package? Which packages are
> expected to interact with it?
> 
> If providing the virtual package requires implementing a specific
> alternative (via dpkg's update-alternatives), then I think the entry in
> Policy's list should say so. But I'm already not a fan of the use of
> alternatives for x-terminal-emulator, because I think it's a bad fit for
> what desktop environment users expect.
> 
> fit for GNOME, and Konsole is a better fit for KDE. But if their
> applications start x-terminal-emulator, then there's no way to represent
> that expectation, and at most one of our two users can get what they want.

What about sensible-terminal ?

Cheers,
Bill.