On 13249 March 1977, Per Andersson wrote: >> There's a more popular/more complicated piece of software called Foreman[1], >> for which there's an RFP already[2], as well as a component of that, >> foremancli, already in Debian. Upstream provides a package too, although you >> could argue it isn't our problem if there's a naming conflict. > I saw this but decided to ignore it for now since there hasn't been any > activity > with Foreman in over a year. If the name conflict arise in Debian it is a > pretty > small matter to change it then I think. I.e. Foreman[1] renaming to > theforeman as > the upstream web page or this foreman renaming to ruby-foreman or some such, > it is not a big thing IMHO.
In Debian its actually a pretty big matter. The more so the longer the wrongly named package exists in Debian. So it is *much* preferred to not have it at all, if the conflict is known from the beginning. -- bye, Joerg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sj0ahp3d....@lennier.ganneff.de
