Re: name collisions
On 20-Aug-2002 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>> Debian should try *very* hard to match the upstream names. otherwise any
>> docs
>> or 3rd party tools will not be happy under Debian. Also if a user sends
>> them a
>
> Even when upstream uses such dumb names as "reconstruct", "master" and so on?
> (dumb as in guaranteed to cause filesystem clashes)
>
many of those can be solved by placing them in a special directory. And yes,
sometimes we do have to step in (-:
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