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Bug#861792: ITP: lr -- list files, recursively



On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 07:25:01AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> On Sun, 07 May 2017, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote:
> > On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 08:53:27AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > > Please don't (and this counts for your xr ITP too) add new two-letter binaries. 
> > > This will just get everyone into trouble. 
> > 
> > What would be the rationale for this?
>
> There are not enough two letter names for everyone. Therefore it is preferred
> not to polute that namespace. 

Yes, but that's an argument for upstream not to pick a 2-letter name;
once it happened anyway (and given that the exist no colliding executable
as far as I can tell), the alternatives (not packaging or changing the name)
don't seem to solve any problem.

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