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Re: Bug#790933: ITP: drive - Google Drive tool



Am 05.07.2015 um 09:15 schrieb Jackson Doak:
> It might be possible to rename the binary and symlink "drive" to it,
> which would allow you to give the binary name over easier


Top-posting in a thread breaks the flow of the messages - as you can see
here.

The way to go here would be the alternatives mechanism, which serves
this purpose.
*t

> On 5 Jul 2015 9:11 am, "Clint Byrum" <spamaps@debian.org
> <mailto:spamaps@debian.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of 2015-07-04 13:45:40 -0700:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > Am Samstag, den 04.07.2015, 17:16 +0200 schrieb Sophie Brun:
>     > > Le 03/07/2015 21:46, Guillem Jover a écrit :
>     > > > drive is an extremely generic name in tech, please use something
>     > > > else
>     > > > when packaging this, both for the source/binary packages and the
>     > > > executables and other related files. Prefixing it with «google-»
>     > > > could
>     > > > be an option, perhaps. Doing this upstream would be preferable.
>     > >
>     > > I followed your suggestion and opened this issue:
>     > > https://github.com/odeke-em/drive/issues/271
>     > > But upstream doesn't seem to be agreed. What do you suggest?
>     >
>     > you are free to choose your source and binary package name independent
>     > from upstream’s choice. For example, all Haskell packages are named
>     > haskell-foo, where upstream calls it just foo. So let upstream do what
>     > he likes and do what you think is best within Debian with the Debian
>     > package.
>     >
> 
>     Indeed. However, they've selected 'drive' as their binary command name..
>     so following upstream's rather unfortunate namespace grab might actually
>     be the right way to go, to make sure it's clear 'this is the package
>     that owns drive in the execution path'.
> 
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