Re: policy on binary/package naming convention

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> wrote:

>> I (and I assume most users) expect the binary to be of the same name
>> and case as the package name.
>
> The 'mercurial' package has a primary executable of 'hg', and none
> called 'mercurial'. All its users expect this, and write documentation
> and scripts and other interfaces based on this expectation. How would
> your proposed executable naming policy affect this?

Symlinks "mercurium", "mercurial", "mercury", "hydrargyrum", and
"quicksilver" pointing to /usr/bin/hg.  Plus l10n packages "quecksilber"
(symlink Quecksilber), "mercure" (symlinks mercure and vif-argent)
etc.pp. 

:-), Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer