Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Anthony Towns wrote: GNU Interactive Tools hasn't seen an upstream update at all since 2001, and looking at the diffs since .18, doesn't seem to have had any significant changes since 1999. The Debian updates seem mostly to be updating the build system, rather than user-visible changes. I

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-15 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Anthony Towns wrote: Steve Greenland wrote: On 12-Jun-05, 02:27 (CDT), Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to convince either git or GNU Interactive Tools to change its name upstream then. Since git is the newcomer and its name is already taken (by a GNU

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-14 Thread Anthony Towns
Steve Greenland wrote: On 12-Jun-05, 02:27 (CDT), Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to convince either git or GNU Interactive Tools to change its name upstream then. Since git is the newcomer and its name is already taken (by a GNU project no less!) perhaps you could start there.

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-13 Thread Steve Greenland
On 12-Jun-05, 02:27 (CDT), Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to convince either git or GNU Interactive Tools to change its name upstream then. Since git is the newcomer and its name is already taken (by a GNU project no less!) perhaps you could start there. The existence of

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-13 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:46:27AM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12-Jun-05, 02:27 (CDT), Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From my reading of your package description for cogito, the name GIT (the version control system) doesn't seem

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-13 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12-Jun-05, 02:27 (CDT), Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From my reading of your package description for cogito, the name GIT (the version control system) doesn't seem to mean anything in particular. So renaming it would not be a big loss.

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:11:16AM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Adam Majer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rename /usr/bin/git to /usr/bin/cogito-git or whatever. It is not that hard. That's true Adam: renaming a file is not hard... But in this case it has terrible consequences. Naming it

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-12 Thread Adam Majer
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Adam Majer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Hi folks, I have a noob question for you. I maintain the Cogito package (my first), and it wants to install an executable as /usr/bin/git. The GNU Interactive Tools package (git) also wants to

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-11 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Adam Majer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Hi folks, I have a noob question for you. I maintain the Cogito package (my first), and it wants to install an executable as /usr/bin/git. The GNU Interactive Tools package (git) also wants to install an executable as

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-10 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Majer wrote: Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: Hi folks, I have a noob question for you. I maintain the Cogito package (my first), and it wants to install an executable as /usr/bin/git. The GNU Interactive Tools package (git) also wants to

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-10 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Sebastian Kuzminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The cogito /usr/bin/git is a tiny little helper script hardly worth its inode, but it's in the upstream package and I dont want to remove it or rename it. As others have asked, why not? Does anything actually rely on the script existing by that

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-10 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron M. Ucko) wrote: The cogito /usr/bin/git is a tiny little helper script hardly worth its inode, but it's in the upstream package and I dont want to remove it or rename it. As others have asked, why not? Does anything actually rely on the script existing by that

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-10 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Sebastian Kuzminsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, given that git-from-cogito seems to have a fatal flaw (it doesnt shift the script name out of the arguments list), I'm guessing it's not widely used. I'll request that the upstream people remove it from the distribution. Oops, my fingers are

namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Hi folks, I have a noob question for you. I maintain the Cogito package (my first), and it wants to install an executable as /usr/bin/git. The GNU Interactive Tools package (git) also wants to install an executable as /usr/bin/git. To avoid this conflict I made cogito Conflict with git. I have

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-09 Thread Ben Finney
On 09-Jun-2005, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: The cogito /usr/bin/git is a tiny little helper script hardly worth its inode, but it's in the upstream package and I dont want to remove it or rename it. Care to expand on why you don't wish to rename or remove the conflicting Cogito file? It may