Re: renaming scripts provided by upstream

[Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>]

Hi Drake!

You wrote:

> Quoth Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@2008.43-1.org>, on 2008-12-12 22:30:24 +0100:
> > I understand that it should not matter to the user what language is
> > used to implement a particular script and support omitting
> > extensions.  But what about renaming scripts provided by upstream?
> > In this case renaming programs to comply with the Debian naming scheme
> > creates new problems:
> 
> Not being well-acquainted with this bit, I can't comment very well on
> what Debian policy would say, but wouldn't using the upstream name
> plus a non-extensioned symlink solve several of these cases?

I think policy tries make sure there are no "foo.pl" or "bla.sh" scripts
in the path, regardless of what they are symlinked to.  I don't know
what the rationale behind that is though (apart from the ugliness).
And in any case, it's a SHOULD, so there can be exceptions to the rule.

Ansgar, which package and binary is this about, in particular?  That
info might make the question a bit more concrete...

Regards,
Bas.


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