Re: Package names in GNOME 2
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 17:10, Joe Drew wrote:
> [Disclaimer: As the maintainer of gedit, I have a bit of a vested
> interest in this.]
>
> I can't really account for the way a some of GNOME 2 is being packaged,
> at least with regard to applications and their package names. I count no
> fewer than 9 applications which are being packaged with the "2" postfix:
> control-center2 eog2 file-roller2 gdm2 gedit2 gnome-applets2
> gnome-games2 gnome-utils2 sawfish-gnome2
This has been extensively discussed on this list in the past week or so,
and before that as well.
> 2) Maintainer strife. Why does a new upstream version of a program,
> dependent on a different set of libraries, give a new person the right
> to take over a package?
You should be the maintainer of the gedit2 package if you maintain
gedit.
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