Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, Debian as a project has effectively standardized (by practice) on > the hyphenation that has been suggested all over the place in this > thread. Debian users will and should be able to expect a Debian-style > package naming. > Dismissing comments favoring this hyphenation - in unison - as > expressions of personal taste doesn't really reflect the fact that > consistency is a quality Debian users look for in packages. > > If you provide the TeX live names in the long description, people will > be able to find stuff by the usual package search functions.
I'm not sure why the goal of exact correspondence with texlive names is important in the first place (if it's just because it's aesthetically pleasing, then obviously the same argument can be made from a Debian point of view as well). I assume that people seeing/using texlive-in-debian are more likely to be long-term Debian users rather than veteran texlive users, and will benefit both from more readable package names, and (as you say) from consistency with other debian packages. Note that there is a definite benefit to this sort of consistency -- I often do operations in aptitude by matching on package prefixes/suffix, e.g. everything matching "-doc" (or whatever). For programs, some sort of correspondence with texlive names might be useful, but that could be easily provide via other means (e.g. a mapping file, or perhaps virtual packages like "texlive-collection-FOO"). -miles -- /\ /\ (^.^) (")") *This is the cute kitty virus, please copy this into your sig so it can spread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]