Bug#114920: [PROPOSAL] remove foolish consistency in perl module names
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008, Julian Mehnle wrote:
> According to a simple survey of the packages in Lenny/amd64 (main,
> contrib, non-free), 2365 of the 11757 source packages (20%!) have no
> binary package of the same name. 814 of these (7% of all) have only
> a single binary package. Wanna mass-file bugs?
No, because changing the source package name is worse than having a
stupid source package name. [The complications that it makes for bug
tracking is the major reason why changing source package names should
not be done unless required.]
> Or maybe the reason doesn't have to be all that compelling.
The reason should be compelling. While it's unfortunate that stupid
source package names have been chosen on initial uploads in the past,
I'm more concerned about the choice of source package names going
forward.
Don Armstrong
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begun to fascinate him -- as if he had managed to outlive himself, as
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