Demote xterm to universe

[Jeremy Bícha]

Now that xterm is no longer included in the default Ubuntu install, we should be able to demote it to universe and let gnome-terminal fulfill the x-terminal-emulator virtual package dependency.

$ reverse-depends -c main xterm
Reverse-Recommends
==================
* tk8.6
* xinit

Reverse-Depends
===============
* xorg

tk8.6
Recommends: xterm | x-terminal-emulator

xinit
Recommends: xterm | x-session-manager | x-window-manager | x-terminal-emulator

xorg
Depends: xterm | x-terminal-emulator

gnome-terminal
Provides: x-terminal-emulator

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

$ ./change-override -c universe -S xterm
Override component to universe
xterm 324-2ubuntu1 in artful: main/x11 -> universe
xterm 324-2ubuntu1 in artful amd64: main/x11/optional/100% -> universe
xterm 324-2ubuntu1 in artful arm64: main/x11/optional/100% -> universe
xterm 324-2ubuntu1 in artful armhf: main/x11/optional/100% -> universe
xterm 324-2ubuntu1 in artful i386: main/x11/optional/100% -> universe
xterm 324-2ubuntu1 in artful ppc64el: main/x11/optional/100% -> universe
xterm 324-2ubuntu1 in artful s390x: main/x11/optional/100% -> universe
Override [y|N]? y
7 publications overridden.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Laney pointed out that we should check that gnome-terminal doesn't get accidentally seeded somewhere.

$ seeded-in-ubuntu gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal (from gnome-terminal) is seeded in:
  ubuntu-gnome: daily-live
  ubuntu: daily-live
gnome-terminal-data (from gnome-terminal) is seeded in:
  ubuntu-gnome: daily-live
  ubuntu: daily-live

$ seeded-in-ubuntu xterm
xterm (from xterm) is seeded in:
  ubuntu-gnome: daily-live
  ubuntu-mate: daily-live
  ubuntukylin: daily-live
  ubuntustudio: dvd
  xubuntu: daily-live

We should run these commands tomorrow to make sure things look right.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

xterm showed up on component-mismatches to promote it back to main because of the tk8.6 recommends (see original bug report). Maybe we should add gnome-terminal as an explicit alternate recommends? We might need to do that to xorg and xinit too.

Meanwhile, someone re-promoted xterm back to main.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

I don't think if you are going to repromote it that we want to do an universe -> main -> universe dance. Do you mind fixing adding the alternate rather?

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I'm trying tk8.6 first and then we'll see what germinate comes up with once that's published.

http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/germinate-output/ubuntu.artful/all

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tk8.6 - 8.6.7-1ubuntu1

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tk8.6 (8.6.7-1ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium

  * Add gnome-terminal as alternate Recommends (LP: #1720482)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Oct 2017 11:10:56 -0400

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

so was the change to tk8.6 enough?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xorg - 1:7.7+19ubuntu3

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xorg (1:7.7+19ubuntu3) artful; urgency=medium

  * Add alternate dependency on gnome-terminal (LP: #1720482)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:25:30 -0400