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Re: renamings to remove extensions



Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 19:30 +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).

This is not a useful analogy.  Software will continue to work with or
without documentation or description.  Renaming programs breaks
interfaces.

I totally agree. For this reason the suffix must be removed!
Program interfaces remain, but implementation language changes
(see many "-ng" packages).

ciao
	cate


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