On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:27:56PM +0100, Amaya wrote: > I'm just using the name the package already had when I adopted it. > Now I'm very confused :-m > > I haven't seen anything in debian-policy regarding this, and BSD's Jail is not > packaged in Debian, is it? BSD's Jail is (Free?)BSD specific, and probably would go into another package (bsdmainutils?) if a port were packaged. If you were packaging jail anew, I might recommend a longer more descriptive name, but renaming a package is painful to current users, and definitely not worth the trouble here. A maintainer should find a compromise between a full description and excess verbosity. (For example, the package utf-converter (which never made into Debian) should have been named utf-converter-zh, as it only handled Chinese character sets (and Unicode). But utf-converter-gb2123-big5 or utf-converter-for-chinese would have fallen into the overly verbose stage. (As I apparently have.)) -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg
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