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Re: Bug#881896: RFP: src -- Simple Revision Control, single-file and single-user version tracking



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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