On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > So the question is -- is there any other possible resolution I do not > see here besides just keeping .py suffixes and providing a lintian > override?
The implementation language is irrelevant to users and thus should not be in the names of things in $PATH. We don't suffix binaries compiled from C with .c or shell scripts with .sh and python should be no different. The free version is command-line incompatible with the non-free version. This leads me to suggest you get upstream to switch to using a suffix like -free, -new, -fnme (free NME), -mnet (mne-tools) or prefix like f (free). It solves both problems and is really what upstream should have been doing from the beginning since .py is hardly the appropriate differentiator between the non-free and free versions of the commands. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6GE1pf=Uh-Pw4jX4RezHP=7sbdm6ae49h1k0_f7txl...@mail.gmail.com
