Gurkan Sengun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-08-31 13:24:21 +0200 Steffen Joeris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> On Thursday 31 August 2006 01:58, Gürkan Sengün wrote: >>> Package: wnpp >>> Severity: wishlist >>> >>> * Package name : adun.app >> Maybe I miss some essential parts, but I always wonder why some people add a >> .app to the software name? Can you please give me a short explanation or >> point me to a previous thread? > > they don't. it's just the debian packages that do. to not rape the debian > package name space.
That's a worthwile goal. > please check the mailing list archive for details. > > why, are you having a problem with the names? I think this is also already in the archives: To the knowing, the .app suffix indicates that it is a Gnustep application. To everyone else, .app is pretty much meaningless. Therefore I'd prefer if you'd use a suffix with a less arcane meaning, like -gnustep. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
