Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I (and I assume most users) expect the binary to be of the same name >> and case as the package name. > > The 'mercurial' package has a primary executable of 'hg', and none > called 'mercurial'. All its users expect this, and write documentation > and scripts and other interfaces based on this expectation. How would > your proposed executable naming policy affect this?
Symlinks "mercurium", "mercurial", "mercury", "hydrargyrum", and "quicksilver" pointing to /usr/bin/hg. Plus l10n packages "quecksilber" (symlink Quecksilber), "mercure" (symlinks mercure and vif-argent) etc.pp. :-), Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
