On Thursday, July 11, 2013 12:30:54 AM Stuart Prescott wrote: > Thomas Goirand wrote: > > On 07/08/2013 10:10 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> There is no policy on this either way, so there's no "mistake". > > > > Well, the mistake is precisely to have no rule, IMO. > > Rules for packaging things are normally there to solve problems of > interoperability and to assist QA efforts. Which of these is it going to > help? > > > Never the less, I think we should collectively decide what to do, rather > > than continuing the mess, with everyone having its own rule. > > What mess? If there is a perceived mess, why is that a problem in any case? > How does it help to make a new rule? Who does it help? What problem does > this solve? Why is any intellectual energy being spent on this at all? > > It looks exceedingly like a rule for the sake of having a rule. It will be > an exceedingly complicated rule in that it will have to cover python > modules, python applications and other libraries that offer python bindings > all separately. It will have to be accompanied an explanation of why so many > packages don't follow it because they were uploaded prior to the rule > existing. Basically... unless we are going to force every existing source > package to change name to comply with this rule there is no point in having > it (and no-one has advocated renaming source packages as is useless work > for everyone). > > Rules like this look like yet another small barrier to entry to new > contributors in the form of yet another thing to learn. Debian already has > too many administrative hurdles and piles of little rules that scare away > people. I'm yet to understand whether rules like this are created for > benefit of people who like to have a policy with which to berate others or > by people who like to impose order on the world around them. > > 2¢
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