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Bug#241620: preferences: Package name is WAY too generic



Package: preferences
Severity: normal

As per recent discusions on debian-devel, the package name "preferences" is
too generic and abuse of the shared resource, package namespace.
                                                                                
At a minimum I'd like you to prefix the package name with gnustep- or
something.  Moreover it is a bad idea to install a binary named
/usr/bin/preferences.  If possible patch your package to install it as
/usr/bin/gnustep-preferences, and consider using /etc/alternatives to create
the preferences alias, if you must.
                                                                                
The later may be controversial: the former should not be.
                                                                                


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4-ck1
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US



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