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Re: New package with old name



On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 05:19, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:58:38AM +0200, "Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona" <jgb@gsyc.escet.urjc.es> was heard to say:
> > I'm considering packaging CIL (C Intermediate Language),
> > http://manju.cs.berkeley.edu/cil/
> > 
> > But when checking the obvious name for it (cil) it seems that is is
> > already present in Debian, for "Chess In Lisp",
> > http://packages.debian.org/stable/doc/cil
> > 
> > However, this package seems not to be available neither in testing nor
> > in unstable, which maybe means it is deprecated?
> > 
> > So, my questions:
> > 
> > - Can I use the name "cil"? (I bet the answer is "no" ;-) )
> 
>   Probably a bad idea -- stable cil users will wonder why their chess
> program has been replaced with a program analysis tool :).

;-) That is my impression too.

> 
> > - Which name should I use for a package that is expected to be named
> > "cil" but cannot be named like that?
> 
>   What about c-intermediate-language?

I was thinking about something like that (a bit long, maybe a bit
difficult to find for those looking for something called "cil", but I
guess there are not many other options...

Saludos,

	Jesus.

> 
>   Daniel
> 
> -- 
> /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> -------------------\
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