On Tue, 22 May 2007, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Firstly, I do not want to maintain a renaming patch. There are many > separate instances of "Ion" and "Ion3" in documentation, messages, > etc. I believe this would be a continuing maintenance chore.
Well, some of those references have to stay, because they're functional, not descriptive. That said, I did start a stab at creating such a patch, and if you would accept such a patch, I wouldn't mind completing it. > Secondly, I believe Tuomo would object to the transition package. Unfortunatly, he really doesn't have a case. The name used in this particular way as a transition package is purely functional. It would be different if we used it after a suitable period of time for transition. [It's the same as allowing a /usr/bin/ion symlink.] > "apt-get install ion3" would install a heavily modified (by > renaming) and possibly outdated version of Ion. Sure, but it would warn users that this was the case just as much as this currently prefered solution does. > Finally, I don't think it would serve current and potential users of > Ion on Debian to rename it. We just about get away with Iceweasel as > that controversy was widely publicised and the package is part of a > standard desktop installation. For any more obscure application I > fear renaming means death for the package; users won't find it. (On > the other hand, you could argue this is true for non-free packages. > I don't really know how many users are aware of or have enabled use > of the non-free section.) > > > FWIW, I like the name fission. > > That's been vetoed, as I expect would "iron" be. I find the claim > over anything referring to "ion" to be tenuous but I do not wish to > antagonise the author. Unfortunatly, the very fact that we have to be so concerned about possibly offending the author kind of indicates to me that no matter what we do, the author will be offended. Even forking appears to be utterly abhorrent to him, but it's quite likely that at the end of the day, those of us who use Ion may have no choice but to do that. Don Armstrong -- More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. -- Woody Allen http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
