Re: renamings to remove extensions
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 19:30 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> "Steve M. Robbins" <steve@sumost.ca> writes:
>
> > I agree with Charles: this is unncessary, unproductive busy-work.
>
> The same characterisation could be given to other changes that raise the
> quality of software in Debian (e.g. ensuring that commands are
> accompanied by man pages, or that the package synopsis should not be
> repeated in the extended description).
This is not a useful analogy. Software will continue to work with or
without documentation or description. Renaming programs breaks
interfaces.
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