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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