wcstools package change

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Sun Feb 15 20:05:49 UTC 2009


On Sunday, 15 February 2009 at 20:08, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Sergio Pascual wrote:
> > Upstream for wcstools is rather irresponsive, but I will try
> > 
> <no>
> 
> If neither wcstools or libwcs are willing to change their name, then we
> need to talk to other distributions about coming up with a common
> renaming at the distro level.  Otherwise we'll have wcs => libwcstools
> in Fedora; libwcs => libwcs2 in Gentoo; libwcs Conflicts with wcstools
> in Debian; etc.  That's a no-win situation for everyone involved.

Contacting all involved maintainers and talking it over at distributions
at freedesktop.org[1] might be a good idea.

Regards,
R.

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions

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