On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:46:27AM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12-Jun-05, 02:27 (CDT), Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >From my reading of your package description for cogito, > > > the name GIT (the version control system) doesn't seem to > > > mean anything in particular. So renaming it would not be a big loss. > > > > The upstream name isn't going to change. There are probably already > > more users of GIT-the-VCS than GIT-the-tools. So if you rename git for > > Debian, we are very likely going to to be incompatible. > > > > Just Conflict with the git package. The overlapping user base is likely > > to be nil. > > There is at least one user that wants both... I got a bug report about > this before I made cogito.deb Conflict with git.deb. (Then of course > I was told that that was the wrong approach, so I _removed_ cogito's > /usr/bin/git and removed the Conflict with git.deb.) > > But I agree totally with you. I'd much rather conflict with GNU > Interactive Tools and have git-the-vcs be compatible with non-debian > universe. That seems like the lesser of two evils. But everyone else > on debian-devel seems to want it the other way so I gave in for now.
More importantly, the policy forbids it, as was already noted before in this very same thread. This thread is running in circles... I hope everything has been said by now so people can move on with the C++ transition and such :)? --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]