On Tue, Sep 29 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 29 septembre 2009 à 11:43 +0200, Mike Hommey a écrit : >> Improving quality only for the sake of it is not necessarily a good >> idea. I do agree that if everyone but Debian expects foo to be called >> as foo.pl, there is a bug in Debian. > > Which is why lintian warnings are left at the appreciation of the > maintainer. > > Renaming binaries in a way that breaks interfaces or expectations is not > desirable, of course. That doesn’t prevent the goal of removing useless > script extensions from being a worthy one.
Damn. Must be a cold day in hell, since I am on the same page here. > The idea of putting extensions in scripts is stupid; it denotes a lack > of understanding of the Unix way, and makes it harder to make them > evolve in the future. Which is why we should remove these extensions > when possible, and ask upstream to do so when it is not. Also, it breaks encapsulation; and makes it unnecessarily hard to re-implement the functionality in a different language (unless one thinks it is a good idea to have a python script have the name foo.sh). manoj -- This was the most unkindest cut of all. William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org