On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:28:16PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 07/24/2012 12:00 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Also, we should not favor software written in the context of our downstream > > distributions, compared to sofware written independantly, otherwise the take > > home message will be that if one project wants to own a dictionary word in > > Debian, they just have to use it downstream first. > > > At some point, projects have to decide for a name. I'm really not > convinced that > Melange is that generic. I'm not at all convinced either that someone is * Google's Melange * Melage (cream) * OpenStack Melange > trying > to do typo squatting either, just for the pleasure of owning dictionary > words. It > is just the way it is: Melange is there, and it's in Ubuntu. Denying > that fact, and No one's denying the fact -- I'm just saying, we can do the following here: * No one takes `melange' * OpenStack Melange becomes openstack-melange (or whatever) * Cream becomes cream-melange (or whatever) * Ubuntu follows suit * Ubuntu MOTU / Core-dev upload `melange' as a transitional package which points to openstack-melange. After this, they can wait 3 years if they want, then clear out the deps. I mean, it's not that bad. Everyone here's seen worse. This would also solve an annoying problem before we have to deal wit hit. > that it might add difficulties in the future if we don't use the same > names for > the same thing will not help. > > I'm only vouching for the least effort here. I really don't want to > spend time > convincing *both* upstream and Ubuntu guys that we shall rename. I'm not > at all in the favor of having a special case for Debian either (which means > that it would be more difficult to merge packaging efforts later). I don't think my idea is significantly more work then yours :) > > Thomas > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] 500E4080.40700@debian.org">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 500E4080.40700@debian.org > Fondly, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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