Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

[with apologies for the original broken reply]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:21:17 +0700, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On 11-11-16 at 07:08pm, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> > On 11/15/2011 01:48 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
> > > I personally wonder if we should change our policy instead of
> > > forcing these two upstream communities into conflict.
> >
> > I think we should for these cases where it is obvious that one
> > software exists for a much longer time than the other. We should not
> > force old projects to rename themselves just because the developers 
> > of
> > a new project did not investigate if they use an existing name.
> > Checking filenames of the largest distributions is not hard.
>
> Who says the package maintainers of nodejs did not investigate the 
> use
> of an existing name?

I assumed Bernd meant upstream could have checked.

Regards,

Adam