hotkey-setup vs tpb

[Batist Paklons]

Binary package hint: xubuntu-desktop

Xubuntu-desktop currently depends on hotkey-setup. Hotkey-setup conflicts with tpb. This is quite annoying for those, such as me, who prefer tpb, yet would like the comfort of the xubuntu-desktop package. Is there any usability that hotkey-setup provides, essential for xubuntu, that cannot be supplied by tpb?

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Hi,

Thanks for your bug report.
tpb seems dedicated for IBM ThinkPad laptops, whereas hotkey-setup seems more 'generealistic'.

And I am not sure that hotkey-setup could be moved to Recommends, since it rather important for laptop users.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

As said above, tpb seems dedicated to ibm laptops, and is in universe, therefore xubuntu-desktop cannot depend on it. I am tagging this bug as "Won't Fix", but feel free to reopen it if tpb is promoted to main or if you have more infos.

[Batist Paklons (batist)]

Can this not be solved by giving tpb "provides hotkey-setup", so that ibm users can install tpb without breaking xubuntu-desktop? That way the user has to take action to get tpb, but otherwise hotkey-setup will be installed?

[Adrian Frith (adrian-frith)]

As a temporary workaround, you could install the metapackage at http://frith.co.za/hotkey-tpb_1.0_all.deb - it 'Depends' on tpb and 'Provides' and 'Replaces' hotkey-setup. Or you could create a similar package yourself with 'equivs'.