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Re: old ITP's



On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 03:12:29PM -0400, kcr@debian.org wrote:
> > That sounds ugly though - having an alternative for something that does
> > entirely different stuff. Isn't it possible to rather rename the "new"
> > version of xplot to, say, xtcpplot or something?
> 
> That would be very silly since Tim's xplot is a very useful general-purpose
> tool.

Not only that, but the docs for xplot and tools like tcptrace would have
to be updated to avoid horrible confusion...

> This won't be the last time something like this happens, we should come up
> with a reasonable general response.

This is pretty much why I didn't package Tim's xplot when working on my
tcptrace package...  It was too much ugliness to deal with that the
time.  8^(

noah

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