Bug#150456: coherency with mkfs and fsck filesystem package names

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 19-Jun-02, 05:21 (CDT), Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> wrote: 
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.5.6.1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Taking a look at packages in Debian that contain
> filesystem maintainance utilities (mkfs and fsck):
> 
> e2fsprogs
> reiserfsprogs
> dosfstools
> xfsprogs
> jfsutils
> 
> I think it'd be a good thing if Policy suggested
> to use a commonly agreed naming scheme (without
> necessarily enforcing it).

Ack. No, this not something that needs to be policy, as it has no affect
on the interoperation of the packages and programs on the system. The
names are probably the upstream names, and it's much better to match
that, so that when documents say "build jfsutils" then Debian users
can just translate to "apt-get install jfsutils".

Manoj, AJ: See? I don't think everything needs to be in policy :-)

Steve

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