This is a proposal to add some standards to Policy for how packages should be named to avoid short package names or names that are more common than the package deserves (camera, terminal, etc.).
The proposal was discussed briefly in 2004 and then the discussion died without proposed wording or apparent consensus. This topic is still discussed from time to time on debian-devel, but it's difficult to write a Policy provision that incorporates the various common-sense guidelines that go into good package names. My belief is that public review on debian-devel with the possible intervention of ftpmaster where necessary is preferrable to trying to codify rules for package naming in Policy. For that reason, plus lack of consensus, I am rejecting this proposal. This is a soft rejection, meaning that if someone feels strongly about this proposal and wants to step forward to champion it again, I'd be willing to reopen the bug. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
