Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> writes: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:30:44PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > "Steve M. Robbins" <st...@sumost.ca> writes: > > > > > I agree with Charles: this is unncessary, unproductive busy-work. > > > > The same characterisation could be given to other changes that raise > > the quality of software in Debian (e.g. ensuring that commands are > > accompanied by man pages, or that the package synopsis should not be > > repeated in the extended description). > > None of these have an impact on *other* software. Renaming a file > does.
Peter Eisentraut <pet...@debian.org> writes: > This is not a useful analogy. Software will continue to work with or > without documentation or description. Renaming programs breaks > interfaces. This is a different complaint from “unnecessary, unproductive busy-work”. I was answering only that complaint. So, if the change can be made *without* breaking existing interfaces (e.g. by providing a compatibility symlink to the suffix-less real program file), then the “breaks interfaces” complaint is addressed and is no longer an impediment to providing well-named program files. -- \ “Holy contributing to the delinquency of minors, Batman!” —Robin | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org