Re: Bug#190753: About dropping the ‘should’ recommendation to rename binary programs using a suffix to indicate their programming language.

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:

> My main argument is that it makes Debian installations incompatible
> with installations on other operating systems as well with on-line
> documentation.

That doesn't seem sufficient reason to avoid improving the quality of
Debian by installing command programs with sensible primary command
names. I'm in favour of keeping the current recommendation.

Note that I'm neutral on the idea of preserving the language-specific
name as an alternative. I don't think that would violates Policy §10.4,
am I wrong?

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