On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:48:03PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Carl Fürstenberg writes ("Re: Bug#597571: nodejs: non common executable > name"): > > Policy only states "The maintainers should report this to the > > debian-devel mailing list and try to find a consensus about which > > program will have to be renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached, > > both programs must be renamed."; I don't see any consensus in the > > thread you linked to, so technically both must change at the moment :) > > I wrote that bit of the policy and my intent was to try to punish > people for picking stupid names. >
In this case, and many others, the only "people" punished are the Debian packagers and users. The packagers because they have to create patches to rename the binaries, and the users because the name is not the same for either package in Debian as it is on other distros. > Yes, both binaries should be renamed. "node" is a ridiculous name for > a specific-purpose executable. At this point in time I would agree. Twenty or so years ago when the ax25 software was first being developed, node adequately described the binary's function and was not so common a term. We had a similar issue not that long ago with the ax25 package "listen". It had been in Debian for a long time and then someone wanted to upload something new that was also named "listen". Initially the ax25 package name was kept, but later it was changed to "axlisten" and the (created much later) audio player was allowed to keep the name. Pat -- Patrick Ouellette p...@flying-gecko.net ne4po (at) arrl (dot) net Amateur Radio: NE4PO What kind of change have you been in the world today?
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