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Bug#588510: rename thin-client-server profile to ltsp-server profile



[Holger Levsen]
> the thin-client-server profile name has become incorrect and confusing. While 
> it used to be a thin-client server, it has become an ltsp-server, also 
> captable of serving diskless workstations and not only thin-clients.

I believe it is a good idea to avoid product names like ltsp in the
profile names, and believe it is better to come up with a descriptive
name.  What about terminal-server or netboot-server?  Do you have
references to questions from someone confused by the existing name, to
gain some insight on the type of confusion and perhaps some clues on
how best to avoid the confusion?

I suspect We could move to -C template texts to avoid having to rename
the profile names used internally and only have to change the visible
text.  This will give us less work when implementing a name change.
We should anyway move to -C templates to be able to drop the dash (-)
in the visible profile names.

> As we have just introduced a new profile anyway,
> roaming-workstation, translator will need to work on the templates
> anyway, thus now is a good moment to do the change.

Such rename will require changes to the source packages debian-edu,
debian-edu-install and debian-edu-config, and will rename one of the
meta packages leading to holding time in NEW on the next upload.  We
need to change the task test, the partitioning code, as well as the
testsuite tests if a profile name changes.  I might have forgotten
something too.  A search for Thin-Client-Server in these three package
sources should expose all places that need to change.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen



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