On Fri, 01 Nov 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: > I recommend if possible to keep the original upstream name if it has a suffix. > Not doing so means that Debian becomes incompatible with other systems and > with > the existing documentation. > > So the question is -- is there any other possible resolution I do not > > see here besides just keeping .py suffixes and providing a lintian > > override? > The solution is to the change Policy :) > See http://bugs.debian.org/190753 for more discussion.
yeap -- for projects with sufficient legacy stripping the extensions is hurting more than providing benefits which are pretty much hypothetical, since extensions are pretty much unused, and in majority of such cases would never go out of sync with underlying implementation Well -- after all policy uses "should" and not "must", so indeed extensionless scripts should be encouraged but do not have to be strictly enforced. In this case the project is young enough to not impair too many users by switching the cmdline interface as they are keen on keeping Debian folks happy: https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python/pull/866 refactor commands/scripts to expose only one named mne -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Senior Research Associate, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131101151639.ga27...@onerussian.com
