Re: 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:
> Le Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:45:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>> 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?
> I agree that there is no consensus. For my packages, I have stopped
> removing extensions because I do not want to take the risk to break
> users scripts. I would like to appeal to the Technical Committee, but I
> am about to take holidays, so it would be rather at the end of June.
> But my experience of “after the holidays” plans is that my mailbox will
> be full of other issues that will be equally hungry for my time. How
> about closing the bug for the moment? When appealing to the TC, I will
> take care of unarchiving, reopening, and reassigning.
That sounds good to me. Thanks! Closing with this message.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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