Re: renaming scripts provided by upstream

2008-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > liblocale-maketext-lexicon-perl ships a `xgettext.pl' which I would like > to see installed in /usr/bin (#508505). In this case there is a small > additional problem: just omitting the extension does not work because > `xgettext' is already provided by gettext. It was

Re: renaming scripts provided by upstream

2008-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > liblocale-maketext-lexicon-perl ships a `xgettext.pl' which I would like > to see installed in /usr/bin (#508505). In this case there is a small > additional problem: just omitting the extension does not work because > `xgettext' is alre

Re: renaming scripts provided by upstream

2008-12-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Bas Zoetekouw writes: > > You wrote: > >> Quoth Ansgar Burchardt , on 2008-12-12 22:30:24 +0100: >> > I understand that it should not matter to the user what language is >> > used to implement a particular script and support omitting >> > extensions.

Re: renaming scripts provided by upstream

2008-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Bas Zoetekouw writes: > I think policy tries make sure there are no "foo.pl" or "bla.sh" scripts > in the path, regardless of what they are symlinked to. I don't know > what the rationale behind that is though (apart from the ugliness). > And in any case, it's a SHOULD, so there can be exception

Re: renaming scripts provided by upstream

2008-12-13 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Drake! You wrote: > Quoth Ansgar Burchardt , on 2008-12-12 22:30:24 +0100: > > I understand that it should not matter to the user what language is > > used to implement a particular script and support omitting > > extensions. But what about renaming scripts provided by

Re: renaming scripts provided by upstream

2008-12-12 Thread Drake Wilson
Quoth Ansgar Burchardt , on 2008-12-12 22:30:24 +0100: > I understand that it should not matter to the user what language is > used to implement a particular script and support omitting > extensions. But what about renaming scripts provided by upstream? > In this case renaming progra

renaming scripts provided by upstream

2008-12-12 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
l that denotes the scripting language currently used to implement it. I understand that it should not matter to the user what language is used to implement a particular script and support omitting extensions. But what about renaming scripts provided by upstream? In this case renaming p