Hello *, a fine reply to a common concern. :-) Cheers, Flo ----- Forwarded message from Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> ----- From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> Subject: Re: policy on binary/package naming convention To: debian-policy@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:33:30 +0100 Message-ID: <86zmm01nh1.fsf@alhambra.kuesterei.ch> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >> I (and I assume most users) expect the binary to be of the same name >> and case as the package name. > > The 'mercurial' package has a primary executable of 'hg', and none > called 'mercurial'. All its users expect this, and write documentation > and scripts and other interfaces based on this expectation. How would > your proposed executable naming policy affect this? Symlinks "mercurium", "mercurial", "mercury", "hydrargyrum", and "quicksilver" pointing to /usr/bin/hg. Plus l10n packages "quecksilber" (symlink Quecksilber), "mercure" (symlinks mercure and vif-argent) etc.pp. :-), Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer ----- End forwarded message -----
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