Rejected: Bug#253511: clarify "package must have a name that's unique ..."
This is a proposal to add some standards to Policy for how packages should
be named to avoid short package names or names that are more common than
the package deserves (camera, terminal, etc.).
The proposal was discussed briefly in 2004 and then the discussion died
without proposed wording or apparent consensus.
This topic is still discussed from time to time on debian-devel, but it's
difficult to write a Policy provision that incorporates the various
common-sense guidelines that go into good package names. My belief is
that public review on debian-devel with the possible intervention of
ftpmaster where necessary is preferrable to trying to codify rules for
package naming in Policy.
For that reason, plus lack of consensus, I am rejecting this proposal.
This is a soft rejection, meaning that if someone feels strongly about
this proposal and wants to step forward to champion it again, I'd be
willing to reopen the bug.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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