[Debian-med-packaging] r6263 - trunk/packages/gbrowse/trunk/debian

[Olivier Sallou]

In actuel packaging, I removed the pl extension of programs in usr/bin dir

Extensions raise warn/error (don't remember) in lintian.

Olivier

Le 3/14/11 12:53 PM, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> Le Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:46:45AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
>> the name in /usr/bin should not contain the .pl suffix but rather be
>> named /usr/bin/gbrowse_metadb_config.  (This and the reasons for it is
>> somewhere documented in developers reference or best practices.)
> Hi Andreas,
>
> I would like to say that I humbly disagree. Removing the .pl suffixes is extra
> work and cuts us from upstream documentation and pristine installations.
>
> The policy on suffixes is only important when multiple packages implement in
> different languages the same program with the same interface (same command line
> options, …).
>
> Cheers,
>

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