Please go ahead and rename the package "lynx-cur" to "lynx".
There is only one package in Debian providing a /usr/bin/lynx
executable; users should be able to find the description for that
package by asking for "apt-cache show lynx". Users should *not* need
to know ancient history about the packaging of different upstream
branches of lynx just to find the package's name!
Back in 2010, Don Armstrong wrote:
> Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
>> Don Armstrong wrote:
>>> I really think we should ditch the lynx-cur package, and just call
>>> it lynx; reopening and degrading the severity to indicate as such.
>>
>> Okay.
>>
[...]
>
> Just to reiterate my suggestion:
>
> Plan to keep lynx transition package in future?
> Yes: Rename lynx-cur to lynx, stop distributing lynx-cur
> No: Retitle bug; remove lynx transition package after squeeze.
>
> FWICT, there's no one who is planning on distributing a "stable
> release" of lynx (and furthermore, they cannot, as long as the lynx
> transition package exists), so one of the two above things should be
> done.
Three releases ago when "lynx" was made an empty transition package
pointing at "lynx-cur", that naming was immediately recognised as a
mistake, and there's no sign in the bug log of anybody ever suggesting
any sort of justification for leaving it unfixed. You even replied to
Don's proposal with an "Okay". So what are you waiting for?
Please go ahead and rename the package "lynx-cur" to "lynx".
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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