renaming exim4 and apache2 (was: signify and signify-openbsd names)
On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 12:58:23 -0500, Branden Robinson
<g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 9, 2024, 12:43 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2024-10-09 at 10:26 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>> > On Mon Oct 7, 2024 at 8:58 AM BST, Marc Haber wrote:
>> > > P.S.: Isnt it about time to rename exim4 to exim?
>> >
>> > Or apache2 to apache?
>>
>> The ASF is responsible for a lot more than httpd now, and is also
>> (gradually) moving away from using the Apache name, so if that package
>> is to be renamed then something like "asf-httpd" would be better.
>
>There's another name the Apache Software Foundation is NOT moving away
>from at any speed, and seems determined to hang on to like grim death.
>
>...which makes sense since what they're clinging to is a corpse.
>
>So how about openoffice-httpd?
I personally care more about what people call it instead of what their
makes want it to be called (especiall if _that_ changes twice a year).
So, apache it would be for me.
Greetings
Marc
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