Hi Thomas, I felt a couple sentences here were reasonable to add (more than “don’t care” from before).
I understand your concerns here, and I totally get what you’re driving at, but in the packaging world wouldn’t this make sense to call it "python-bash8"? Now the binary, I can agree (for reasons outlined) should probably not be named ‘bash8’, but the name of the “command” could be separate from the packaging / project name. Beyond a relatively minor change to the resulting “binary” name [sure bash-tidy, or whatever we come up with], is there something more that really is awful (rather than just silly) about the naming? I just don’t see how if we don’t namespace collide on the executable side, how there can be any real confusion (python-bash8, sure pypi is a little different) over what is being installed. Cheers, Morgan — Morgan Fainberg From: Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org Reply: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) openstack-...@lists.openstack.org Date: June 12, 2014 at 15:19:00 To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) openstack-...@lists.openstack.org, 748...@bugs.debian.org 748...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Fwd: Fwd: Debian people don't like bash8 as a project name (Bug#748383: ITP: bash8 -- bash script style guide checker) On 06/12/2014 02:01 AM, Sean Dague wrote: > I'd hate to think what these guys think of firefox, grub, thunderbird, > pidgin, zope, git, mercurial, etc, etc. I don't see what point you're trying to make here. Firefox & Thunderbird were renamed because of trademark issues with the Mozilla foundation, and Debian (and the maintainers of these packages) still don't like renaming these packages. For Git, for a while, the package name was already taken by something else. As for Pidgin, Zope & Mercurial, I'm not aware of any issues we had... All this being said, I don't care so much myself. Yet this is a nuisance for me because I may have to deal with such bad naming. Either I ignore recommendations from other DDs, and it makes me feel bad in front of all the Debian project, or I get to deal with all sorts of renaming issues. So it'd be nice if upstream cared... Also, it's truth bash8 is a very poor name, which can be very confusing for our users. Something like bash-tidy or bashtidy would have been much better (even with an 8 at the end...). Thomas Goirand (zigo) _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list openstack-...@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
