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. regards fEnIo -- ,''`. Bartosz Fenski | mailto:fenio@debian.org | pgp:0x13fefc40 | irc:fEnIo : :' : 32-050 Skawina - Glowackiego 3/15 - w. malopolskie - Poland `. `' phone:+48602383548 | proud Debian maintainer and user `- http://skawina.eu.org | jid:fenio@jabber.org | rlu:172001
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