Re: renamings to remove extensions
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:30:44PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> "Steve M. Robbins" <steve@sumost.ca> writes:
>
> > I agree with Charles: this is unncessary, unproductive busy-work.
>
> The same characterisation could be given to other changes that raise the
> quality of software in Debian (e.g. ensuring that commands are
> accompanied by man pages, or that the package synopsis should not be
> repeated in the extended description).
None of these have an impact on *other* software. Renaming a file does.
> Improving quality may be strictly unnecessary, and may be not directly
> productive, but that doesn't mean there's no good reason to expect it.
Improving quality only for the sake of it is not necessarily a good
idea. I do agree that if everyone but Debian expects foo to be called
as foo.pl, there is a bug in Debian.
Mike
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