On 06/19/2010 08:36 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 14:13, Umang Varma <umang...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 06/15/2010 02:37 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:00, Umang Varma <umang...@gmail.com> wrote: >> First, Google seems to have it's own Debian package [1] and it hasn't >> made the source of that package available. > > at least "33 hours ago" from now they released a tarball. it wasn't > there at the time the RFS was went. ... > source package was on mentors.d.n, surely it could have been released > on code.g.c too. Oops. I didn't realize that the person sending the RFS was a upstream co-author, so I didn't make that connection. My fault. >> Secondly, Google itself wants the bin to be called `google`. [2] Since >> the official project page [3] and documentation [4] says `$ google foo >> bar`, making end-users call `$ googlecl foo bar` may confuse them. > > it wouldn't be the first time we rename an upstream exec because too > generic. Should we not doing this because big-G is so big and have > nice tool? No. Not at all. I didn't mean it that way. I had imagined that if Google themselves want a tool named google, they don't expect to make another tool with a conflicting name. If google made a tool called `music` that played music, I would certainly say it's too generic.
I understand your point though - Debian can't blindly let Google choose what the google bin on Debian will do and just because Google made a tool called google does not mean Debian should call it Google. I now agree. > Also note that the ultimate decision will be done by ftp-masters, but > I still consider 'google' too generic Agreed. >> Particularly so if they use something like the Ubuntu Software Center >> (which is the default newbie's package manager on Debian as `gnome` now >> depends on it) where they're unlikely to read the description - if at >> all the description is allowed to have such a warning. > > well, we can't write tools that are completely newbie-proof, no matter > how many checks and things you put in them. Agreed. > >> PS: I am subscribed to d-ment...@l.d.o, so no need to CC me. :-) > > done You may have read that too quickly. I *am* subscribed. > >> [2]: >> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/06/introducing-google-command-line-tool.html > > "Along with a standard tarball, we have a .deb package ready for > download, and hope to have it included in Debian and Ubuntu > repositories in time for their next releases" Oops, I missed that. Again, I didn't realize that the OP was a co-author. > probably some more work on the debian package and less marketing would > have had the package already in NEW queue ;) ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c1cfe5b.5050...@gmail.com
