Hi Pino! On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 01:02:12 +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Pino Toscano <p...@kde.org> > > * Package name : kalternatives > Version : 0.12 > Upstream Author : Pino Toscano <p...@kde.org> > * URL : > http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Kalternatives?content=16016 > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: C++ > Description : graphical alternatives system configuration tool > > Kalternatives offers a GUI to configure the alternative systems (a > system that allows you to select one alternative file for many in the > filesystem). > . > This is an advanced GUI of the update-alternatives program shipped with dpkg.
I've skimmed over the sources, and it seems kalternatives is reading and writting directly to the alternatives db (under /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/). The db should be considered internal, and we reserve the right to change its layout in the future. There's been recent changes to update-alternatives to make it more friendly and usable by front-ends (specifically the --get/set-selections and --query options), could you consider rewritting it using those? If the interface is inadequate or too limited we can always extend/fix it. Another option would be to wait a bit, the future plans are to rewrite it in C and move part of the db handling to a shared library. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org