Le Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:12:22PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > > - When policy 10.1 refers to maintainers reporting naming conflicts to > debian-devel and trying to find consensus about which program is to > be renamed, is that consensus among the maintainers of the packages > involved or some other group? In other words, is stonewalling an > acceptable and viable strategy? > > - Policy says that in the absence of consensus, both packages must be > renamed. A number of people have mentioned that that looks like a > bad outcome from the users' perspective.
Hello everybody, I also think that the current policy is not helpful to create consensus, and can cause to maximise annoyance. In addition, it has a minor loophole, that after both parties have renamed their files, a third package can, without noticing, take the name. Keeping a placeholder solves the problem, but may also complicate local workarounds to the forced renaming. Perhaps the Policy package could maintain a blacklist of program names for which no agreement was reached. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
