Patrick Ouellette wrote:
The ham radio node package was uploaded in 2005. The binary existed as
part of ax25-tools before then. (At least I think it was the -tools
package, could have been libax25 or ax25-apps)
Ah, thanks for this reminder. So an appropriate new name to
transition to
Hi Pau.
2012/5/1 Pau Garcia i Quiles pgqui...@elpauer.org:
Hi,
I'm the maintainer of Wt ( http://packages.debian.org/sid/witty ).
Since version 3.1.11, Wt uses jPlayer to implement the WVideo and
WAudio classes. Today I discovered SwfTools provides an AS3 compiler
(previously I though
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:34:47AM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote:
On 02/05/2012 00:16, Patrick Ouellette wrote:
(shrinking cc list because I think I've said too much on -devel already)
Hi Pat,
Patrick Ouellette wrote:
I was under the impression that neither package was going to move
FWIW, the ham radio node package has been in Debian since 1999
according to packages.debian.org.
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:50:03AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
[...]
It is perfectly reasonable to have a transition plan to a new name. Given
the
age of the two packages, I'm not
Patrick Ouellette wrote:
Likewise I can argue the number of people with installed ham radio systems
is a good reason NOT to change the current situation.
You can, yes. But how does that move things forward at all?
This is not supposed to be a popularity contest. I mentioned the
large pile
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:02:14PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote:
(I added lea...@debian.org to the Cc: because this is something that
I think needs addressed at the leadership level)
In that case, please clarify what you expect from me :-), especially
taking in account the fact that DPL's
Hi Stefano,
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:02:14PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote:
(I added lea...@debian.org to the Cc: because this is something that
I think needs addressed at the leadership level)
In that case, please clarify what you expect from me :-), especially
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 12:13:49PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Patrick Ouellette wrote:
Likewise I can argue the number of people with installed ham radio systems
is a good reason NOT to change the current situation.
You can, yes. But how does that move things forward at all?
I never
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org:
#node-nopt (1.0.10-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
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# * Add dependency on node-abbrev. (Closes: #671256)
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limit source node-nopt
Limiting to bugs with field 'source' containing at least one of 'node-nopt'
Limit currently set to
Patrick Ouellette wrote:
(The patch sent does not address
automatically updating anything)
This is very funny. You are putting patch in quotes, but it[1] was a
real patch. It did not automatically update anything because it was
meant to be a simple patch to
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:12:22PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Hi policy editors,
In the discussion at [1], Pat wrote to the DPL asking for some
mediation in figuring out what should happen to the node command
name. No one has offered that mediation (the ctte presumably could do
it if
Bill Allombert wrote:
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:12:22PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Policy also states that different packages must not install commands
with different functionality with the same name.
Such packages would have to Conflicts anyway, and gratuituous conflict
must be
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes:
Stefano suggested writing to you to request interpretation of policy.
Sorry to drag you into this. Thoughts would be welcome, but if you'd
prefer to hold off on interpretation until this particular story is
resolved, that would be a fine answer,
Jonathan Nieder writes (tech-ctte: please help maintainers of packages with a
node command to have a reasonable conversation):
The node and nodejs packages both provide a command named node.
I'm disappointed to see this is still rumbling on. There is only one
correct solution, and it is this:
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes:
I'm disappointed to see this is still rumbling on. There is only one
correct solution, and it is this:
In the long term, I would be happiest if both were renamed.
I won't reiterate the arguments that I've already made on debian-devel,
but
Russ Allbery writes (Bug#614907: tech-ctte: please help maintainers of
packages with a node command to have a reasonable conversation):
I also think the current Policy suggestion to rename both programs in the
event of an unreconciled naming conflict is not a very good idea, and
think it
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes:
I really feel it's unfair to allow johnny-come-lately's who couldn't be
bothered to choose a reasonable name for their program, and who couldn't
be bothered even to look up whether the name was already taken, to just
blunder their way into
Hi Pau,
On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 11:51 +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
Hi,
I'm the maintainer of Wt ( http://packages.debian.org/sid/witty ).
Since version 3.1.11, Wt uses jPlayer to implement the WVideo and
WAudio classes. Today I discovered SwfTools provides an AS3 compiler
(previously
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