Re: policy on binary/package naming convention

2006-01-12 Thread Ben Finney
On 13-Jan-2006, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Is there (or should there be) a Debian policy on binary file naming? Since most executables in Debian packages have existing users from before the Debian package existed, I can't see any sense in such a policy unless it says "wherever possible, preserve the

Re: policy on binary/package naming convention

2006-01-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would a policy that requires binary and man page adherence to the > package name be feasible and desirable? I think you're better off pushing for inclusion of a README.Debian file in the doc directory if how to use the package is at all unintuitive (s

policy on binary/package naming convention

2006-01-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hello all, Is there (or should there be) a Debian policy on binary file naming? For example, today I installed the "linhdd" package. To invoke the program, I typed "$ linhdd". However, I received a "command not found" message. So, I did "$ apt-file search linhdd" and found that the binary is a

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Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package

2006-01-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Waters wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:19:05AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >>Without this or a similar text, it is not clear to me that source >>packages creating -headers binary packages are in compliance >>with Policy, which currently s

Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package

2006-01-12 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:19:05AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Could Policy be amended slightly to explicitly permit library source > packages to create a -headers package containing include files? I would rather see it modified to not forbid it than add a whole paragraph to explicitly permi