Bug#190753: About dropping the ‘should’ recommendation to rename binary programs using a suffix to indicate their programming language.
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> After a discussion on debian-devel@lists.debian.org, that I have
> summarised in
> ‘http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20091001012838.GA30270@kunpuu.plessy.org’;,
> I am proposing to drop or relax the requirement from the Policy section
> 10.4, that programs have to be renamed to remove the suffix of their
> name when it relates to the language used to write them.
Based on the debian-devel discussion and on past discussions in
debian-policy, I'm fairly sure that we don't have consensus to remove this
requirement. I suspect this is going to need to go to the Technical
Committee unless the discussion here surprises me a lot.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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