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Emmet Hikory wrote:
On Jan 19, 2008 4:35 AM, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:
What I am going to do, and for what I ask for confirmation:
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I am going to repack as falconpl, set conflict with
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I see the conversation has stopped, so I would think that some
silence-agreement point has been reached. I would like to write here
what I am going to do with the package and ask for general agreement on
the topic, but before, let me add an
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Subject: Naming problem for the Falcon Programming Language in
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Hi,
On Mo, 2008-01-14 at 11:01 +0100, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:
Stephan Hermann wrote:
Good Morning,
I don't see any intervention of the motu-council here.
You are talking about two different upstream projects,
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And I think this is your problem right now. Not a technical or
Stephan Hermann wrote:
Well, when you respect the ubuntu users or your users in general (ubuntu
is not that special) then you would solve the problem by yourself. e.G.
you rename all your binaries and libs from falcon to falconpl (this is
just an example of a simple solution ! ) and then you
Scott Kitterman wrote:
My suggestion is to call your package falconpl as you've said you would and
then conflict against falcon. After that, we can let the market decide. If
one of these packages gets popular enough to cause the other difficulty with
the conflicts, then the less popular
On Jan 14 January 2008 11:31 AM, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:
Up to date, several MOTUs have checked and reported there is no
current namespace clash. I am also willing to call my package
falconpl, which is also the name of the site:
On Jan 14, 2008 1:42 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
My suggestion
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:52:43AM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
That's why I always tell upstream authors to never package their own
software, because they are not objective.
I think this is silly. The more familiar the maintainer is with upstream
the better, IMO. They need to realise that
Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
Scott Kitterman wrote:
My suggestion is to call your package falconpl as you've said you would and
then conflict against falcon. After that, we can let the market decide. If
one of these packages gets popular enough to cause the other difficulty with
the
On Mo, 2008-01-14 at 14:39 +0100, Soren Hansen wrote:
IMO, the programming language should allowed to be /usr/bin/falcon.
Changing the name of the interpreter will mean that any program that is
supposed to be interpreted by falcon will need to be patched. OTOH,
renaming the binary in Dennis'
On Mo, 2008-01-14 at 14:39 +0100, Soren Hansen wrote:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:15:41PM +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote:
I don't have a strong opinion about which is the right falcon, but
such a Conflicts: would be wrong. Section 10.1 of the Debian Policy
Manual (1) clearly states, in part:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:17:49PM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
IMO, the programming language should allowed to be /usr/bin/falcon.
Changing the name of the interpreter will mean that any program that
is supposed to be interpreted by falcon will need to be patched.
OTOH, renaming the
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:12:15PM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote:
That's why I always tell upstream authors to never package their own
software, because they are not objective.
I think this is silly. The more familiar the maintainer is with
upstream the better, IMO. They need to realise that
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Hello;
I'd like to report a problem that is concerning the naming of two
packages that are being concurrently racing for inclusion in the very
next version of Ubuntu.
I would argue that the way MOTU have managed the whole situation is
questionable
On Sunday 13 January 2008 21:31, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:
...
Up to date, several MOTUs have checked and reported there is no
current namespace clash. I am also willing to call my package
falconpl, which is also the name of the site:
...
gen 13 23:22:50 ScottKjonnymind: My concern right
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