Re: changelog vs ChangeLog and policy dictates

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:

>  Let's forget the policy. And let's take an average Linux user, using the
> standard command shell (me using bash =)). This user uses the tab key to
> travel through the filesystem and reach the farthest (?) files. This user
> (who seems to like talking in 3rd peron about himself) has a little happier
> life if he can get a list just by double tabbing at "/usr.../changelog",
> instead of having to get out to the cold big world of "cd" and "ls".
> 
>  I think the real the question is "Why would we need to keep the upstream
> name?"
>
Because the user who expects to find the change log for this package and 
has always, in the past, found it in the file ChangeLog, will try to use 
the tab completion feature that you use above and fail when they look for
the "usual" filename.
 
Luck,

Dwarf
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