Re: Policy §10.4 as a divergence from usptream (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).
Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org> writes:
> At least in cases where the programs/scripts could be considered part of
> a programming interface, this requirement is approximately equivalent to
> requiring the exported symbols of libraries to conform to some spelling
> scheme. While Debian has occasionally altered or broken the exported
> interfaces of libraries in cases of severe trouble, this is not
> routinely done, and usually not merely in the name of prettiness.
The argument for the Policy change wasn't about prettiness, but rather
about not encoding the implementation language into the interface name.
When the shell script named foo.sh gets rewritten into Perl, having it
stay foo.sh or be renamed to foo.pl are both kind of broken.
That may not be a good enough argument to continue this policy, but that
was the argument for why it's now in Policy.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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