Policy §10.4 as a divergence from usptream (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).
Dear all,
I know that there has already been much of talk about this, but I am am getting
more and more uncomfortable removing .pl or .sh extensions from programs when
upstream does not.
I use the packages I made, and renaming upstream programs names makes my scripts
incompatible with my colleagues work environments using other distributions or
installations from source. So as a maintainer, I spend time creating extra work
for myself as a user. That does not make sense.
Would it be possible to change our Policy and simply follow upstream choices?
Good arguments can be given for not including extension in program names
upstream, but in my opinion removing them before upstream creates more
problems than it solves…
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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