Re: Installed black-box 1.3-1 (source i386)
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:52:16PM -0400, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Description:
> > black-box - Find the crystals
> > Changes:
> > black-box (1.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
> > .
> > * Initial Release.
> > * Upload sponsored by Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>.
>
> That sure does come darn close to colliding with the name of a window
> manager that's been around for a couple of years.
>
> Do you think it would be possible to rename this package before it gets too
> entrenched? It sure would suck to have to talk about "blackbox" versus
> "black dash box".
Upstream already renamed this program from "blackbox" to
"black-box" after I told him that there's a window manager with the same
name. Yes, it's not the best to have two packages with similar names. But
I think it's impossible to avoid similar names in all cases - there are
too many people who write too many programs.
cu,
Adrian
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