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.
Hi Charles,
We had some discussion about this on the Policy list last year, and I
think it was clear from that discussion that there isn't consensus to
revert this change (although there may also not be consensus to make it
again now if we were starting from scratch; I'm not sure).
As discussed in that thread, the best path for a contentious point like
this with good arguments on both sides would be to go through the
Technical Committee, which is designed to be able to make decisions like
that.
I'd like to dispose of this bug one way or another, either by reclosing it
or by appealing it to the Technical Committee. Which direction would you
like to go with it at this point?
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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