Re: Bug#13503: changelog vs ChangeLog and policy dictates
Dale Scheetz wrote:
> 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.
Almost everytime that we have a change of policy some previous user that knew
how to do something is affected and has to relearn something. This is yet
another reason as to why we don't want to change policy lightly. But when we
agree on policy, then lot's of users expect things to be that way and
therefore lots of them will be annoyed when they are not.
I don't think policy should be "cast in stone" but there certainly should be
a stronger reason not to implement it.
Luis.
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