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Re: Bug#694749: ITP: GNU Health -- Electronic Medical Record and Hospital Information System



2012/11/30 Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 05:00:14PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
[...]
>> Is it really not part of GNU? I see the URL being a subdomain of gnu.org:
>>
>> >> [...]
>> >> * URL             : http://health.gnu.org/
>> >> [...]
>>
>> And from their webpage:
>> | Health is an official GNU package, part of the GNU System. All the
>> | development is at : GNU Health project[1] at Savannah

Yes, GNU health is an official GNU package.

> I think either
>
>     gnu-health  or gnuhealth
>
> would be a proper package name because it is just the name of the
> project.  We also do have gnumed-{server,client} packages because the
> project ist named GNUmed.  We just have to settle with a reasonable
> name without space (and '_') and need to stick to lower case letters.

gnuhealth is the one I prefer, closest to the official project name,
and unlikely to get in conflict with other future packages (using
"health" alone would be too generic)

> BTW, the packaging in
>
>    svn://svn.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/gnuhealth/trunk/
>
> has "gnuhealth" as package name.
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>
> PS: Most probably it makes sense to let reportbug reject invalid package
>     names in ITP bugs.
>
> --
> http://fam-tille.de

   +Emilien


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