On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 11:51:30AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> IMHO, /usr/bin/node is much too generic a name to be in any package.
>
Too generic or not, /usr/sbin/node has been in Debian since at least 1999
(13 or so years now).
I'm also sure there are many other projects using similarly
On 03/05/2012 11:51, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 04:20:47PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> 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 diff
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 04:20:47PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 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.
> >
>
Russ Allbery wrote:
> I don't know what to say to this, since this question seems exceedingly
> strange to me. The way we maintain Policy is by consensus, so if a
> consensus develops around a solution, the answer is obviously yes? Or,
> perhaps, the answer is obviously no since the same consens
Jonathan Nieder 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, too.
> The questi
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
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
> i
Jonathan has left out a bit of history here. please review
the following bug reports while thinking about the issue:
http://bugs.debian.org/597571
http://bugs.debian.org/611698
http://bugs.debian.org/614907
These show evidence the people involved may not especially be of a mind
to comply with po
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 asked) but I mentioned that there seems to have been some
uncertainty ab
