Hi,
I try to resume the thread about the name of plink binary in Debian to
finally find a solution. Status:
1. we can not use /usr/bin/plink because of the name
conflict with the putty tool
2. plink executable will be moved to /usr/lib/plink/plink
3. we use a symlink to this place
Andreas Tille wrote:
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Steffen Moeller wrote:
we should ask the technical committee to rule over it. And maybe this
needs some voting in the end.
Who is this *we*? Do you volunteer?
:) no, since I personally see no preferable alternative to the current
conflicting
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 05:57:37PM +0200, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
On 03/04/2009, at 19.04, Steffen Moeller wrote:
I personally think that we should not rename it. And putty's plink
should not be renamed either. The two are in a technical conflict,
though with little practical consequences.
Hello,
Daniel Leidert wrote:
Andreas Tille wrote:
in October last year there was a longish discussion about name space
pollution regarding plink. If you like to spend some time you should
read the complete log of #503367 [1].
I decided to put an end now on this issue to make sure it will
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Steffen Moeller wrote:
we should ask the technical committee to rule over it. And maybe this
needs some voting in the end.
Who is this *we*? Do you volunteer?
IMHO plink should be renamed because it is way less popular than the
putty tool. So we will loose this voting
Andreas Tille wrote:
in October last year there was a longish discussion about name space
pollution regarding plink. If you like to spend some time you should
read the complete log of #503367 [1].
I decided to put an end now on this issue to make sure it will
not remain as is for ever and
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Daniel Leidert wrote:
Two questions are left on my side:
1. On the one hand plink upstream claimed on their website[3] that
Debian *has* renamed plink to snplink (which is not really true
because the discussion ended without any real action). But Gentoo
Andreas Tille wrote:
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Daniel Leidert wrote:
[..]
What about using /usr/bin/PLINK? I can't find a requirement in the
policy to use lowercase characters for a binary/script. Maybe I missed
it?
A Plink was discussed and refused [1]
IMO just changing one character is
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:23 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
What about using /usr/bin/PLINK?
please god no. try to find a name that removes confusion, not one that
is ugly but still as generic.
Cheers,
Julien
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On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Daniel Leidert
daniel.leidert.s...@gmx.net wrote:
What about using /usr/bin/PLINK?
Please don't.
I have already had enough problems with MacOS, Windows, and some other
operating systems and filesystems which are not case sensitive.
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Hi,
in October last year there was a longish discussion about name space
pollution regarding plink. If you like to spend some time you should
read the complete log of #503367 [1].
I decided to put an end now on this issue to make sure it will
not remain as is for ever and renamed the entry in
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:51:39 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
This is explained in README.Debian of this package (see svn[2]).
[..]
2. Is the information that plink was renamed to snplink visible
enough or should I rather use a debconf note to make users really
aware what they have to
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