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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