Re: mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users.

To: mplayer-dev-eng@mplayerhq.hu
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users.
From: Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:54:32 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 8762ltdbnb.fsf@hepworth.siccegge.de>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20110818235641.e2951c46.tempn@twmi.rr.com> (compn's message of "Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:56:41 -0400")
References: <[🔎] 20110818235641.e2951c46.tempn@twmi.rr.com>

Hi!

compn <tempn@twmi.rr.com> writes:
> mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users.
>
> it doesnt help that debian is using that name as a package:
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mplayer/news/20110817T173341Z.html

I don't see any mplayer2 mentioned in that link btw apart from the
version number. are you implying mplayer should never ever use a digit
'2' in it's versioning?

Regards

    Christoph

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