On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:50:54PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:58:46AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:43:49PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > > 1) You said before you were concerned about my package occupiing the > > > > package > > > > namespace in the archive. The fact that you don't like the name of my > > > > package > > > > proves your previous argument was intentionaly bogus. > > > > > > The fact of the too generic package name was mentioned before within > > > other arguments against your "linux" package. > > > > How many software programs called "linux" are around? > > Dozens. Lots of people have created variations on the theme of > "linux".
Does your response imply that "variations on the theme of linux" and "programs called linux" are the same thing? If it does, I clarify that my question does not. Which means your response is irrelevant. If it doesn't, tell me which are these "dozens" I never heard about them. > You're not even talking about packaging the one released from > kernel.org, you're talking about creating your own fork (vis. patches > to make it work on different architectures). Read my debian/copyright file. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
