<quote who="Ben Hutchings" date="Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:16:58AM +0100">
> 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. If Ion3 dies in Debian, it will Tuomo's fault, not yours. In fact, he's said he wants exactly that to happen on several occasions. > (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.) Non-free has been disabled by default in an unasked Debconf questions for several releases now. I don't know if we have numbers on the number of people who use non-free but my gut feeling is that it's not large. Users that use non-free are "in the know" -- enough so that I suspect they'll be able to find an ion3 package under another name. > 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. The author is not making not antagonizing him very easy. Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mako.cc/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
