Le Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:21:53PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > When preparing the recent package I noticed that you are providing > scripts featuring language extensions (.pl and .sh). Debian Policy[1] > says: > > When scripts are installed into a directory in the system PATH, the > script name should not include an extension such as .sh or .pl that > denotes the scripting language currently used to implement it. > > and there are several good reasons to follow this advise. Could you > imagine to drop this extension in the script names - IMHO this would be > a good idea as long as fastx-toolkit is 0.0.x numbered.
Dear Andreas and Gordon, please do not change the names unless a transition period of 1-2 years is planned where both names are available together. That recommendation of Debian Policy is a pure disaster, that makes Debian systems incompatible with all the rest of the world. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
