Hi Peter,

On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 09:46:30PM +0100, Peter Duffy wrote:
>I installed Debian Bookworm into a virtualbox VM, selecting xfce as the
>desktop (overriding the default, which was Gnome), and then ran
>"update-alternatives -config x-terminal-emulator". It was set to use
>/usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper. zutty wasn't installed. I tried
>installing it just to see if it worked, and if it automatically
>configured x-terminal-emulator to point to itself. It did work, and it
>didn't reconfigure x-terminal-emulator.
>
>So - based on that, it would seem that this is specific to devuan
>daedalus - at least at the time that I installed it earlier today.

This isn't specific to Devuan Daedalus. I experienced exactly the same
thing: zutty being installed unexpectedly along with XFCE4.

But in my case it was Debian sid:

2023-10-27 19:43:28 install zutty:i386 <none> 0.14.6.20230701+dfsg1-2

Interestingly, the very next package to be installed was:

2023-10-27 19:43:28 install xfce4-terminal:i386 <none> 1.1.1-1

They both have priority 40.

>I'm currently doing a new test install of daedalus into another
>virtualbox VM. At the moment, I'm thinking that this must have been a
>recent error, and maybe has been corrected upstream by now - and if so,
>maybe by now it's percolated into the devuan repos. (I think it would
>only be noticeable if someone installed daedalus onto old hardware, or
>if they noticed that the fonts looked a bit weird. I'm not sure - I
>haven't delved into what's actually behind the zutty error as yet.)