About renaming scripts to remove suffixes.
Le Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:31:15AM +0200, Luca Capello a écrit :
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> Given that ncbi-blast+ provides a 'legacy_blast' script without the .pl
> extension, the ncbi-blast+-legacy package should reflect that.
Dear all,
I would like to take the opportunity of this bug report, to say again that I
find that the Debian-specific practice of systematically removing the .pl and
similar suffixes is actually damaging.
In my work environment, it makes my scripts and my documentations incompatible
with everybody else using other *nix systems, that is, most of my colleagues.
Discussion in http://bugs.debian.org/190753 underlines that the aim of this
Policy recommendation is programs whose name is an interface, that is, whose
functions are standardised and where it is common to find multiple
implementations in different languages. In the pacakges distributed by the
Debian Med team this is rarely the case.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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