Hi,
I try to resume the thread about the name of plink binary in Debian to
finally find a solution. Status:
1. we can not use /usr/bin/plink because of the name
conflict with the putty tool
2. plink executable will be moved to /usr/lib/plink/plink
3. we use a symlink to this place und
Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Steffen Moeller wrote:
>
>> we should ask the technical committee to rule over it. And maybe this
>> needs some voting in the end.
>
> Who is this *we*? Do you volunteer?
:) no, since I personally see no preferable alternative to the current
conflicti
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 05:57:37PM +0200, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
> On 03/04/2009, at 19.04, Steffen Moeller wrote:
>> I personally think that we should not rename it. And putty's plink
>> should not be renamed either. The two are in a technical conflict,
>> though with little practical consequen
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Steffen Moeller wrote:
we should ask the technical committee to rule over it. And maybe this
needs some voting in the end.
Who is this *we*? Do you volunteer?
IMHO plink should be renamed because it is way less popular than the
putty tool. So we will loose this voting any
Hello,
Daniel Leidert wrote:
> 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
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Daniel Leidert
wrote:
> What about using /usr/bin/PLINK?
Please don't.
I have already had enough problems with MacOS, Windows, and some other
operating systems and filesystems which are not case sensitive.
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On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:23 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> What about using /usr/bin/PLINK?
please god no. try to find a name that removes confusion, not one that
is ugly but still as generic.
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Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Daniel Leidert wrote:
[..]
> > 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?
>
> A Plink was discussed and refused [1]
IMO just changing one charact
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Daniel Leidert wrote:
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
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 eve
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:51:39 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> This is explained in README.Debian of this package (see svn[2]).
[..]
> 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
Hi,
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 /
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