Re: Name clash lsh
Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org> wrote:
> I'm still intersted in packaging lsh, the free secure shell for Debian,
> but I need still a solution for the name clash. So if we don't find one
> soon, I will remove my ITP and somebody else can take it over. I asked
> on irc and on this list and nobody stepped up and suggested a good
> solution. And I send a mail to the maintainer of lsh, the baby shell,
> about this issue, but got no reply until today. As I'm fed up with this,
> I'm considering stopping my ITP and working more on QA.
Well the problem has already been considered, the answer you want is in
Policy:
# 4. Files
# --------
#
#
# 4.1. Binaries
# -------------
#
# It is not allowed that two packages install programs with different
# functionality but with the same filenames. (The case of two programs
# having the same functionality but different implementations is handled
# via `alternatives.') If this case happens, one of the programs has to
# be renamed. The maintainers should report this to the developers'
# mailing and try to find a consensus about which package will have to
# be renamed. If a consensus can not be reached, _both_ programs must be
# renamed.
Unfortunately, the policy document does not say what to do when one of the
maintainers does not respond to messages. You could take this as the last
option, a consensus can not be reached, so both programs must change their
names. Is anybody actually using the current lsh? If they are and lsh suddenly
changes to a completely different program, with their login shell disappearing,
they are not going to be very happy. Let us see if anybody is using it, here
are the results from the popularity-contest:
# Results for Section 'shells'
#
# Popularity Contest Results as of Fri Oct 22 13:07:05 CDT 1999
#
# Explanation:
#
# * Vote: Number of people that use this package regularly.
# * Old: Number of people who installed but have not used the package
# recently.
# * Recent: Upgraded the package too recently for stats to be valid.
# * Unknown: No files in the package were used in the statistics
# calculation.
#
# Package Vote Old Recent Unknown
#
# tcsh 310 144 124 0
# pdksh 76 175 153 0
# zsh 74 46 68 0
# sash 47 89 97 0
# pdmenu 40 113 134 0
# csh 37 64 6 0
# ash 32 56 81 0
# osh 25 0 0 0
# rc 5 33 2 0
# lsh 5 16 5 0
# tcsh-kanji 4 4 0 0
# esh 4 5 3 0
# kiss 3 24 1 0
# flin 3 15 2 0
# es 3 18 14 0
# tcsh-i18n 0 0 0 441
Five votes, which means that 5 people are using lsh regularly and running
the popularity contest software.
How about calling the new lsh lshell or did I here the name psst somewhere?
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