On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 07:31:56PM -0500, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Jon Rafkind wrote at 12/13/2011 06:27 PM: > >A user of mine alerted me to the fact that 'scribble' is a crossword > >puzzle similar to scrabble. He had it installed in ubuntu so when he > >typed make in my source tree he ended up playing a game instead of > >generating documentation. > > Given how massive Debian (and, therefore, Ubuntu) is, it's not too > surprising that something is already called "Scribble", but it's a > pain. > > I don't know what PLT wants to do about this, but a Debian > maintainer will probably eventually make the call if PLT doesn't > first.
:) I (and David) would rather have the upstream projects figure it out so it's not "Darn that Debian, always making their own changes." > Here's a Debian package name search, showing multiple Scribbles: > > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=scribble A more relevant search is a search of the filenames: http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=contents&keywords=scribble > Based on past experience, I think that, if a Debian package > maintainer is trying to package Racket, and they see that there is > already a "scribble" executable, they will rename Racket's > "scribble" executable to something else, like "racket-scribble". If neither of the upstream projects (or the package maintainers) are willing to do the rename, then we rename both binaries. -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <james...@debian.org>
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