Re: Policy §10.4 as a divergence from usptream (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).

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Subject: Re: Policy §10.4 as a divergence from usptream (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).
From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:42:42 +0800
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:

> 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.

So get upstream to change their filenames before packaging them for Debian.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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