About PALP
Hi,
Tim Abbott doesn't have the time to care about the palp package
anymore, and I was thinking I might help with it (I already discussed
it with him privately after I reported
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672785 ).
I already repackaged it, but would like to wait a little before
publishing the result : upstream binaries have strange names (class.x,
nef.x, etc), and I wrote them to try to get them renamed.
This demand isn't unreasonable ; here is a part of the mail I sent
upstream :
<<<
Distributions will react differently to those names, and that is
annoying, since they will end up with different correcting schemes ; for
example we already have :
- no renaming in gentoo : http://gpo.zugaina.org/sci-mathematics/palp/ ;
- an added 'palp-' prefix, keeping the '.x' in fedora :
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=palp.git;a=blob_plain;f=palp.spec;hb=HEAD
- the current debian package doesn't rename, but half hides them in a
palp/ directory!
Would it be possible to rename them in the next version (for example
with a 'palp_' prefix and no '.x' suffix)? That way all distributions
would follow your lead and the commands would have the same
names everywhere.
>>>
If upstream pushes out a new version with a better naming scheme, I'll
package that. If they don't want to, then I don't know : either I'll
follow fedora's lib to reduce discrepancies, or I'll rename like I
asked.
Hope that helps,
Snark on #debian-science
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