Package review request: OpenBSD calendar(1) command

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Sun Feb 22 15:55:15 UTC 2009


Am Samstag, den 21.02.2009, 07:10 -0800 schrieb Toshio Kuratomi:
> Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > 
> > What rule do we follow if another program comes up with the same name?
> > First come, first served?
> > 
> In a large sense.  Since calendar has been around for so long in the BSD
> world, it gets to keep the name.

Agreed.

> If the other program was merely packaged for Fedora first, it would have
> to give up its name to the BSD calendar.

How would you make sure the upgrade path doesn't get broken?

> If there are two programs that don't have a long historical or
> standards-based claim to the name then we'd ask both packagers to
> approach upstream about renaming.

Ok, how about epiphany then? The official name is "epiphany-browser" and
there also is a game called epiphany, that is older than the browser.
What are we going to do if someone wanted to package the game? Even if
we renamed epiphany to epiphany-browser we would still have a conflict
with %{_bindir}/epiphany.

> -Toshio
> 
Regards,
Christoph

P.S.: I have to admit that this is actually a hypothetical "what, if"
question.




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