Le 4/27/12 11:01 AM, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Dear Russ, Joey, Debian Med team and evrybody, > > in 2010 I discussed with you in this bug (#190753) about our policy of > removing > suffixes from program names, and the harm it causes by breaking compatibilty > between Debian system using packaged programs, and other UNIX system which > installed the program from source. > > This is causing frequent tensions in my packaging team, with on one hand the > members who want to respect our policy and promote best practices by proposing > a renaming a posteriori, and on the other hands the members who object > changing > a program's name that does not break anything, and who would directly suffer > from such a renaming. > > Much has been said, and I am not criticizing the points that have been made in > favor of renaming, nor I object to promote them to the developers at the > moment > where they chose a name for their new program, but my opinion as a user of > these packages where the scripts would be renamed according to our policy > (which I do not follow anymore since a couple of years), is that the drawbacks > in terms of incompatibility with others, of transition to follow, of loss of > backward compatibility when going back on an old project, etc., are too heavy > compared to the suggested benefits. > > As proposed in 2010 (http://bugs.debian.org/190753#98), I would like to ask > the > Technical Comittee to reconsider our Policy, and restrict it to cases where > the > name of a program is an interface (http://bugs.debian.org/190753#128). I personally agree with this. Renaming causes many issues when multiple programs/scripts are calling each others and we need to patch a lot the scripts to match this. Furthermore it is quite complex to test that renaming as no impact on large packages.
Olivier > > I would like to know people's feeling about this. > > Cheers, > -- Olivier Sallou IRISA / University of Rennes 1 Campus de Beaulieu, 35000 RENNES - FRANCE Tel: 02.99.84.71.95 gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (keyring.debian.org) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
