Re: Bug#881896: RFP: src -- Simple Revision Control, single-file and single-user version tracking
- To: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
- Cc: Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com>, 881896@bugs.debian.org, Stefan Fischer <sfischer13@ymail.com>, Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@debian.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#881896: RFP: src -- Simple Revision Control, single-file and single-user version tracking
- From: Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:33:59 +0100
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Hallo,
* Chris Lamb [Mon, Nov 26 2018, 03:16:55AM]:
> Just reviewing this in NEW and was briefly uneasy about a package with
> this name entering the package namespace. For example, given:
>
> $ apt-get source src
>
> … and that there are also many places in Debian where we would be
> using nomenclature such as:
>
> src:src
+1 -> Please choose a different package name
"src" is as clever as choosing "main" for a C++ namespace and similar
unfunny things.
Best regards,
Eduard.
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