On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steffen Möller wrote: >> Teodor happened to have nicely explained my objections to rename plink. > > Except what he said is wrong, puttygen hasn't been renamed.
Yes, puttygen hasn't been renamed. It was a wrong assumption from me .. >> Dear Colin, if you don't mind too much, or if you could be bribed with a >> few beers, please be so kind to rename the plink binary package. > > If we rename plink in putty (I think that is what you are asking?), that it > going to make our version of putty inconsistent with every other putty > package out there. This program is often used by scripts, they will break > too. I still believe it is best to rename 'plink' to 'puttylink' in putty-tools binary package. Anyway, this should be fixed for squeeze since in lenny there is no conflict (plink is not included in lenny). Thanks