Re: ITP: connect -- Frontend to pppd for GNUstep
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004, Graham Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:00:21PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > > Please, didn't we already have a discussion about the name space
> > > pollution? I'd really suggest to use the prefix gnustep- or the like.
> >
> > I'll second that.
>
> Not me. If the package is called that upstream, I see no reason for it
> not to be called the same thing in Debian.
Debian is MUCH more than a gnustep shop. It is MUCH more than WHATEVER shop
upstream lives and breathes in. Debian is a distribution, it has to work
well as a whole, and to archieve that we often need to change a lot of what
upstream did for the "generic" packaging they use.
There is nothing wrong with upstream choices for naming his tarball, his
project, or even his executables... in *his* system. But that _certainly_
doesn't make it automatically right for a Debian system.
This is true not only for your packages. This is a general fact. If
one is to keep Debian well integrated, and working, one has to be prepared
to override upstream.
But I am sure this has been explained ad nauseum to you, by now.
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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