On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 07:57:19PM +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote: > >>>>> "JCGS" == Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JCGS> I think you should provide a link to the old binary name, as > JCGS> if you don't do that installations in which the old name will > JCGS> break silently, which is a bad thing. > > What I'm afraid of is that new CRM114 users could start use the wrong > binary name, thus forcing the package to carry cruft forever. And it > would mean introducing the cruft into stable Debian version (crm114 is > not present in woody). > > Providing a warning during installation or making the link optional > looks like overkill to me. > > Making /usr/bin/crm114 a wrapper script providing some warning may be > dangerous. > > Making just the crm114 link and add a big warning in README.Debian > probably doesn't solve the problem since most users don't read > README.Debian files I guess. But this could make a nice excuse for > me :-) when the link gets removed sometimes in the future, so this is > what I'm most likely to do. > > Any better suggestion?
Don't create anything called /usr/bin/crm114; add a note to NEWS.Debian about removal of the link. It won't fail silently: it will fail stating something like sh: command not found: crm114 . Bye, Joost
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