On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:30:44PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > "Steve M. Robbins" <st...@sumost.ca> writes: > > > I agree with Charles: this is unncessary, unproductive busy-work. > > The same characterisation could be given to other changes that raise the > quality of software in Debian (e.g. ensuring that commands are > accompanied by man pages, or that the package synopsis should not be > repeated in the extended description).
None of these have an impact on *other* software. Renaming a file does. > Improving quality may be strictly unnecessary, and may be not directly > productive, but that doesn't mean there's no good reason to expect it. Improving quality only for the sake of it is not necessarily a good idea. I do agree that if everyone but Debian expects foo to be called as foo.pl, there is a bug in Debian. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
