Bug#830126: IT: purify -- Next-generation radio interferometric imaging

[Ole Streicher <ole.streicher@gmx.de>]

Hi Ian,

Ian Jackson writes:
> Gijs Molenaar writes ("Bug#830126: IT: purify -- Next-generation radio interferometric imaging"):
>> * Package name    : purify
> 
> Might you want to choose a different name ?
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purify
> 
> In general I think perhaps the ITP template ought to be changed to
> include something about naming and name collisions.

I think this is probably not relevant for us:

* The latest release of Rational Purify is of 2009, so it is quite dead
* It is propertiary software, so the inclusion in Debian is unprobable
* Today, the (again propertiary) successor is called "PurifyPlus"

IMO, there is no reason to honor the name forever, and I would
especially not care too much about a non-free program here. If at some
day IBM/Rational purify would become DFSG conform and we want to include
it in Debian (unprobably IMO anyway), we still can call it "ibm-purify"
or "rational-purify", so this is not a showstopper.

Best regards

Ole