Hi,

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:51:41PM +0000, Justin B Rye wrote:
> Package: ppmd
> Version: 9.1-10
> Severity: wishlist

> I do "aptitude install ppmd"; I glance at "man ppmd":
> 
>  SYNTAX
>       ppmd <e|d> [switches] <FileName[s] | Wildcard[s]>
> 
> but when I try "ppmd e testfile", of course I get a "command not
> found" - it's /usr/bin/PPMd.  This is confusing for users accustomed
> to the unix "keep it lowercase" philosophy.

Yes, that's certainly something that annoyed me alot once I toke over
the package, and wanted to rename it (via a transition), but then
forgot. :)

> Given that the PPM part just stands for partial pattern matching,
> and given that even Lempel, Ziv, Wheeler, Burroughs etc routinely
> lose their capital letters on the commandline, it would be nice if a
> symlink was provided - compare:
> 
> /usr/bin/abiword -> AbiWord
> /usr/bin/bitchx -> BitchX

Yes, I'll do that on the next upload. Thanks!

regards,
guillem


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