Andreas Tille wrote: > in October last year there was a longish discussion about name space > pollution regarding plink. If you like to spend some time you should > read the complete log of #503367 [1]. > > I decided to put an end now on this issue to make sure it will > not remain as is for ever and renamed the entry in /usr/bin. > This is explained in README.Debian of this package (see svn[2]). > > Two questions are left on my side: > > 1. On the one hand plink upstream claimed on their website[3] that > Debian *has* renamed plink to snplink (which is not really true > because the discussion ended without any real action). But Gentoo > went the same road to "follow" Debian. > > So there is one established way which is accepted upstream to > handle this problem. > > On the other hand there is this other biological project which > has a snplink as well.[4] While chances are not really high > that this software will also be packaged - you can not know.
What about using /usr/bin/PLINK? I can't find a requirement in the policy to use lowercase characters for a binary/script. Maybe I missed it? > So what is better: Just seeking for another name which hopefully > is singular and asking upstream as well as Gentoo to change as > well or live with the small risk to run the same circle of name > space pollution in case the other snplink will be packaged? > > 2. Is the information that plink was renamed to snplink visible > enough or should I rather use a debconf note to make users really > aware what they have to do? Well, a NEWS entry is mandatory in this situation. I would further suggest to put this information into the package description too and of course leave an entry in README.Debian. Regards, Daniel -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
