Re: RFS: qt-program-starter

[Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>]

Christian Metscher <hakaishi@web.de> writes:

>> Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> writes:
>>
>> Since this is a rather similar (and also very small) tool with
> identical
>> build dependencies, I think you should merge these into a unified
>> tarball.
>
> I'm not sure about this, because they have very different purposes:
> qt-shutdown-p is a tool just for shutting down the system, while
> qt-program-starter is a tool to start programs or commands with the
> options to shutdown and log errors and output.

Well, you could put them in the same source package but still produce
separate binary packages.  The packaging will be so similar that I think
it would be more convenient for you.  And, I'm a bit hesitant to upload
multiple very small source packages to Debian.

>> You might also consider using a little less generic name for these
>> tools, especially since 'qt-*' package names are normally used for tools
>> from the Qt package itself.
>
> Okay, should I call them qtshutdown and qtprogramstarter or rather
> shutdown-p and program-starter?

Eh, I dunno.  Either is OK I guess.

> If I rename them, should I upload them as new packages and delete the others?

I don't know.  I'm not familiar with how the mentors archive works.

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