Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Josselin Mouette [2011-11-16 18:23]: > Reality check: it is not a question of number of users, but a question > of which package has the most stubborn maintainer… You mean like those of a well known desktop environment wrt nm? /me puts the mirror down Yours Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 01:21:17AM +0700, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Why do noone comment on the point raised that the ham tool possibly can > change the name of its binary without involving its end-users, whereas > changing the name of the nodejs binary affects all end-users directly? > I co

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
[with apologies for the original broken reply] On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:21:17 +0700, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 11-11-16 at 07:08pm, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 11/15/2011 01:48 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > I personally wonder if we should change our policy instead of > forcing these two upstream communiti

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:21:17 +0700, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 11-11-16 at 07:08pm, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 11/15/2011 01:48 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > I personally wonder if we should change our policy instead of > forcing these two upstream communities into conflict. I think we should for these c

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Luk Claes
On 11/16/2011 05:23 PM, Nick Leverton wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 06:48:02PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> >> There is no one way to deal with this, we should only deal with this >> on a case-by-case basis and use a number of strategies. ... > >> encourage our upstreams to rename and or work

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-11-16 at 07:08pm, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 11/15/2011 01:48 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Alex Pennace wrote: > > > >> Even without that point, the conclusion remains the same: Both > >> projects should endure the rename (unless one concedes), and that > >> sho

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 11/15/2011 01:48 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Alex Pennace wrote: > >> Even without that point, the conclusion remains the same: Both >> projects should endure the rename (unless one concedes), and that >> shouldn't be viewed in terms of "look at what those meanies in

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 16 novembre 2011 à 18:48 +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > On the other side of a similar coin, the epiphany browser has way more > users than the epiphany game, but it "lost". Reality check: it is not a question of number of users, but a question of which package has the most stubborn mai

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Nick Leverton
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 06:48:02PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > There is no one way to deal with this, we should only deal with this > on a case-by-case basis and use a number of strategies. ... > encourage our upstreams to rename and or work it out between them. If > they are willing, great,

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Joey Hess wrote: > chromium the browser conflicted with chromium the game and won As the person who did the renaming of that in Debian and upstream; it was a no-brainer, there was no winning or losing. The game was always "Chromium B.S.U.", the sf.net project was

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] sean finney > > | export PATH=/usr/lib/nodejs:$PATH > | > | and problem solved, right? > > PATH isn't considered for #! lines, so not really. It is if you use #!/usr/bin/env node -- John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] sean finney | export PATH=/usr/lib/nodejs:$PATH | | and problem solved, right? PATH isn't considered for #! lines, so not really. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread Joey Hess
Alex Pennace wrote: > Clearly, the nodejs community would not be pleased. On the other hand, > the AX25 community would not be pleased about being forced to rename > if it fell on them. So the real question is which community should > bear the costs of resolving this conflict? > > At this stage, i

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 13:34, Ian Jackson wrote: > Charles Plessy writes ("Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle"): > > I agree. One possiblity when packages A and B conflict for a program name > > would be to rename, but in addition to provide a wrapper that

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 03:33:02PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Furthermore, packages in Debian are - to the best of my knowledge - > adapted already to use /usr/bin/nodejs, packages outside can still work > unmodified, if the user makes a simple symlink. Document this, and all's > well. I don't t

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread Gergely Nagy
Paul Wise writes: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Alex Pennace wrote: > >> Even without that point, the conclusion remains the same: Both >> projects should endure the rename (unless one concedes), and that >> shouldn't be viewed in terms of "look at what those meanies in Debian >> are making

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Charles Plessy writes ("Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle"): > I agree. One possiblity when packages A and B conflict for a program name > would be to rename, but in addition to provide a wrapper that executes the > program from A when only A is installed, fr

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:48:57AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Alex Pennace wrote: > > > Even without that point, the conclusion remains the same: Both > > projects should endure the rename (unless one concedes), and that > > shouldn't be viewed in terms of "look

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Alex Pennace wrote: > Even without that point, the conclusion remains the same: Both > projects should endure the rename (unless one concedes), and that > shouldn't be viewed in terms of "look at what those meanies in Debian > are making us do" but instead regarded

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-14 Thread Alex Pennace
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 05:50:08PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Alex Pennace wrote: > > > According to [1], this isn't the first time the nodejs folks ran into > > a name problem. Up until March of 2009 they were using the name > > "server," > > I suspect this was just a working title for the

Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-14 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Alex Pennace wrote: > According to [1], this isn't the first time the nodejs folks ran into > a name problem. Up until March of 2009 they were using the name > "server," I suspect this was just a working title for the program being developed, in the half month before Ryan was able to come up

Two groups of users, one distro in the middle

2011-11-14 Thread Alex Pennace
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 09:09:09PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En ce début d'après-midi nuageux du lundi 07 novembre 2011, vers > 14:42, Ian Jackson disait : > > > 2a. Likewise the maintainer of "nodejs" should prepare a version > > of the package where the "node" binary is cal