On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Kristoffer Ericson wrote:

> The general replies I've gotten when asking to change filenames is that 
> they don't want to break back-portability or whatever. To tell you the 
> truth im not fully in the clear what they ment. Perhaps that it would be 
> harder to track changes if the filename changes, or that if changing 
> names was more allowed it could cause many people to start changing 
> stuff around. 

git can track renames, so that shouldn't be a hard issue.

> Dmitry will certainly have a better idea.

In any case, the name can be changed at any time later.

Thanks for addressing the other issues,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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