Renaming lsh?
Hello, I am a Debian developer. As you may or may not know work is being
carried out to include your program, lsh, in Debian GNU/Linux. Unfortunately
we have come across a problem, there is already a package in Debian called
lsh. You might have heard of the program, it is designed to operate like an
MS-DOS command problem. As we see it there are a number of ways of fixing
this problem, all envolve one of the programs changing its name:
a) the current dos-like-shell, lsh is renamed, and we call the name for the new
free-secure-shell-clone, lsh.
b) the new free-secure-shell-clone is renamed, and the current dos-like-shell,
lsh keeps the same name.
c) the new free-secure-shell-clone is renamed, but only in Debian, the current
dos-like-shell lsh keeps the same name.
The first option is not good, anybody using the lsh package will find that
once they have upgraded to a new version of Debian the lsh package is
completely different. If they are using lsh as a log in shell, they will no
longer be able to log in. The current free-secure-shell-clone, lsh has been in
Debian for 3 years, it has a well established name.
The second option IMHO is the best. The new lsh is not very well know, it is
not too late to change it's name. There would then be no problems with the
Debian packages.
The third options could possibly considered a fork, it is very-sub optimal,
but works around all our current problems, and avoids problems assosiated with
option a. Possible problems that might arise from this change are that people
installing Debian and looking for lsh, the free-secure-shell-clone, would be
confused by the lsh package being a dos-command-shell.
So what do you think? Are you willing to change the name of lsh, the
free-secure-shell-clone?
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