Re: Bug#150761: ITP: moin -- Python clone of WikiWiki
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:28:27PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
->On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Ben Armstrong wrote:
->
->> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:01:44AM +0200, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
->> > Doesen't the upstream software call `MoinMoin'? If so, you'd call the
->> > package moinmoin.
->>
->> Hm. From the ITP:
->>
->> http://purl.net/wiki/moin/
->>
->> No reduplication of "moin" in that URL. Also, at sf.net their project
...cut
->My point as well (thanks for the detailed arguments, Ben).
->
->It is called "WikiWiki" as a general term, but a single site is called a
->"wiki". So I'd say the package moin contains the (one and only) MoinMoin
->generator moin.cgi, where "MoinMoin" is a derivative of "WikiWiki".
->
->> I don't see why the Debian package name should not follow this
->> convention (after all, officially, the package name would be MoinMoin,
->> not moinmoin).
->
->It is normal for Debian packages to have the lowercase of its official
->name, so _if_ the name of the program was MoinMoin then Luca in suggesting
->the Debian name to be moinmoin stands.
->
-> - Jonas
For general information "MoinMoin" is a north german dialect
(Plattdeutsch - Low German) and means nothing else then 'good morning or
good day'. Really, the daytime doesn't care, they all say 'MoinMoin' the
whole day if they meet someone.
Veit
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