also sprach Stefan Schwandter <e9925373@student.tuwien.ac.at> [2002.04.05.1442 +0200]: > I know that policy recommends not to use uppercase letters in package > names, but I'd like to package jack (jackit.sourceforge.net). > Unfortunately, there already is a (source) package named jack in the > debian archive, so I would have to rename "my" jack package. > > I wouldn't have to, if I could call my source package JACK, and if the > debian archives would treat it as a different package. > > Does this work? no, and it would be horrible because there's no intuitive difference between jack and JACK that can relate to the difference between the two pieces of software. a package name is supposed to give a real clue, and i wouldn't know what the difference between jack and JACK are... why not name it jackit since that's apparently the project name on sourceforge? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck every nonzero finite dimensional inner product space has an orthonormal basis.
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