This one time, at band camp, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo said: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 12:39:15PM -0300, Lucas Di Pentima wrote: > > Hi there, > > Hello. > > > I'm packaging ZABBIX (http://www.zabbix.com), a resource monitor & > > agent. The original programs in the upstream source tgz file are > > generated with names like this: > > > > * zabbix_agent > > * zabbix_agentd > > * zabbix_server > > > > ..etc... > > > > I've read somewhere (I think a package's changelog) that the name > > "like_this" was changed to "like-this" because of the Debian policy...so > > I've searched for this detail on the website but didn't found anything > > about that. Is it truth that programs shouldn't have the underscore on > > their names? I don't remember any command to have it anyways :-) > > (fenio@domek)~$ls /usr/bin/* | grep _ | wc -l > 71 > (fenio@domek)~$ > > That's my fresh installation (I'm during migration to new box). > Please DON'T rename binaries names. It only confuses users and often makes > examples in documentation not working. I think there's a confusion here between binary names, and binary package names. The packages should be named zabbix-agent zabbix-agentd zabbix-server But the binaries themselves should retain their original names, so as not to introduce needless incompatibility with the rest of the world. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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