Dear Russ, Joey, Debian Med team and evrybody, in 2010 I discussed with you in this bug (#190753) about our policy of removing suffixes from program names, and the harm it causes by breaking compatibilty between Debian system using packaged programs, and other UNIX system which installed the program from source.
This is causing frequent tensions in my packaging team, with on one hand the members who want to respect our policy and promote best practices by proposing a renaming a posteriori, and on the other hands the members who object changing a program's name that does not break anything, and who would directly suffer from such a renaming. Much has been said, and I am not criticizing the points that have been made in favor of renaming, nor I object to promote them to the developers at the moment where they chose a name for their new program, but my opinion as a user of these packages where the scripts would be renamed according to our policy (which I do not follow anymore since a couple of years), is that the drawbacks in terms of incompatibility with others, of transition to follow, of loss of backward compatibility when going back on an old project, etc., are too heavy compared to the suggested benefits. As proposed in 2010 (http://bugs.debian.org/190753#98), I would like to ask the Technical Comittee to reconsider our Policy, and restrict it to cases where the name of a program is an interface (http://bugs.debian.org/190753#128). I would like to know people's feeling about this. 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
