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Re: more overly-generic package names from gnustep



On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 09:35:59AM +1100, Ben Burton wrote:
> 
> > Your argument about "generic names imply canonicality" can be equally 
> > applied to the other two types of entities.
> 
> Not necessarily.  For instance, renaming binaries may or may not cause
> breakages with other apps/scripts that expect them to be named the same
> as upstream.  Renaming packages generally does not lead to such dangers.

That's what Debian patches are for.

So, are viewpdf, terminal, camera, imageviewer, textedit, preferences, 
addressmanager, addressview-frameowrk, apps-wrappers, 
netclasses-framework, going to be renamed or what?

They should be renamed.



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