Any slowness is purely my fault. I fouled my scratchbox VM and have not had time to get back to it and fix things up.

My plan going forward is to drop in a dummy package to show a path to eff-shell. This will allow the new GUI to come in with the same package name (eff) but at a higher version number. It means that everyone who has the old shell version of eff will have to install the new gui. But I don't see any way around it.

If anyone knows a good debian packaging trick, let me know.