[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#799698: samtools: Unknown command "faidx" on (kfreebsd-)i386

[Charles Plessy]

Le Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 06:58:40AM -0700, Afif Elghraoui a écrit :
> 
> Aaron is right that something is wrong. It appears to be that, in my
> push towards more stringent policy compliance, I inadvertently replaced
> the main samtools executable with a renamed version of samtools.pl

Hi all,

I think that it is one more example that this renaming policy is actively
harmful.

I will bring it to the technical committee in 2016 (after the membership
rotations bring more fresh air in).  In the meantime, I am collecting pros and
cons at the following wiki page.

https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/StopRemovingScriptNameExtensions

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles