On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 19:47:24 +0200
Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> Is there a good reason why this is called par2 instead of parchive2?
> Take a look at apt-cache show par
Because the upstream is par2. par 1 is parchive on Debian because of the
name conflict with Adam Costello's formatting utility. I was thinking of
keeping it consistent with implementations out there on other platforms.
Costello's par hasn't seen development in the past 2 years. In fact the
development that has happened in the past 7 years has been little more than
updating contact information and a minor bugfix release. I don't think there
is danger of the text formatting tool getting a second version much less a
second version which would require such a radical change as to be packaged as
par2.
However, if others disagree I an willing to change it to parchive2. I'd
entertain discussion at that point on the naming of the binary and if the 3
symlinks to par2verify, par2repair and par2create should be dropped. They are
the reason why the man paged, I feel, need 3 symlinks instead of 4 copies. :)
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