Re: Proposing to appeal to the tech. comittee about language extensions in scripts.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:29:17AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
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> Le 4/27/12 11:01 AM, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> > Dear Russ, Joey, Debian Med team and evrybody,
> >
> > ...
> >
> > As proposed in 2010 (http://bugs.debian.org/190753#98), I would like to ask the
> > Technical Comittee to reconsider our Policy, and restrict it to cases where the
> > name of a program is an interface (http://bugs.debian.org/190753#128).
> I personally agree with this.
> Renaming causes many issues when multiple programs/scripts are calling
> each others and we need to patch a lot the scripts to match this.
> Furthermore it is quite complex to test that renaming as no impact on
> large packages.
Perhaps I was missunderstood in my latest mail to Debian Med list[1] but
I was not talking about *we* as in Debian should rename but rather
suggest *upstream* (strongly) to rename their files. Upstream should
know what needs to be changed properly and this would not be the only
change of some interface for a good purpose. So I can not see any
reason why we should stop teaching upstream.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/04/msg00103.html
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