Package: devscripts Version: 2.25.15 Severity: wishlist Control: affects -1 madison-lite
madison-lite (which I wrote and maintain) and rmadison were both named after the dak command "madison" before it was very sensibly renamed to "dak ls" in 2006 (in rmadison's case only a few months before that). There are two problems with retaining the current naming: * It's pretty opaque if you don't remember dak's original naming, requiring explanations in documentation (which in turn some people have found to be confusing, e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/622317). * The original naming scheme was honestly pretty gross, being essentially "attractive famous women" (https://salsa.debian.org/ftp-team/dak/-/blob/704108dfd7a9afe38cdb18463b71bd4739dda9ce/docs/README.names), and it would be good to finish getting rid of it. (I appreciate that there are some other vestiges of that era, notably "britney".) I'd like to find a new name for madison-lite, and it would make sense for that name to be in sync with rmadison. The main obstacle is that I can't think of a good one. "dak ls" is perfectly fine in that context, but it's too specific for something like this as neither madison-lite nor rmadison care whether the archive is managed by dak. "debian-archive-ls" is cumbersome, and also too specific since e.g. "rmadison -u ubuntu" is currently backed by madison-lite. Does anyone have any better ideas? Thanks, -- Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]
